Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

No, it's independent of any operation that you'd perform.  The
transcoding error is occurring just as the container is writing the
information out to the socket.  SAML specifies that the XML that is
being sent to-and-fro is UTF-8 encoded so the connector needs to be
configured to support/use UTF-8.

Kristof BAJNOK wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2008 Chad La Joie wrote:
>> But yes, if you tell your container to use something other than UTF-8
>> and then try to send UTF-8 content it's going to mess things up.
> 
> I'm far from being a Java expert, but does it mean, that you are unable to 
> perform a single base64 encoding independently from the system locale? 
> I thought the container was only dealing with ASCII data (from LDAP and to 
> the browser), I must be wrong then.
> 
> At least this is worth a line in the wiki, I'd think.
> 
> Kristof

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