Shibboleth, Tomcat, AJP and UTF-8 conversion

[Peter Schober]

* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2016-10-20 16:54]:
> > Those are for data that's part of the URL, no? As such those should
> > have nothing to do with request.getAttribute() calls to data provided
> > outside of query parameters?
> 
> In that case, my mistake, I thought people used that because of the
> attribute data, in part at least.

I'm not saying it cannot possibly have that effect (I'd need to look
at the code paths making use of those settings; I don't even have a
container+servlet to test with, atm) and admitteldly it's been a long
time since I ran into that. (More about that can probably be found in
this list's archives.)

Depending on the application and whether data is actually put on the
URL setting those all to UTF-8 shouldn't hurt anything, but according
to the OP they didn't help, either.

That post seems to have many of the things one would try to make sure
UTF-8 is set everywhere: http://stackoverflow.com/a/138950
including maybe statically setting 'AddDefaultCharset utf-8' in httpd.
-peter