parameter-encoding (Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Developer's Guide)

Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Developer's Guide

parameter-encoding

Specifies the default request character encoding and how the web container decodes parameters from forms according to a hidden field value.

If both the sun-web-app and locale-charset-info elements have parameter-encoding subelements, the subelement of sun-web-app takes precedence. For encodings, see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html.

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The following table describes attributes for the parameter-encoding element.

Table A–78 parameter-encoding Attributes


Attribute	Default	Description
`form-hint-field`	none	(optional) The name of the hidden field in the form. This field specifies the character encoding the web container uses for `request.getParameter` and `request.getReader` calls when the charset is not set in the request’s `content-type` header.
`default-charset`	`ISO-8859-1`	(optional) The default request character encoding.