I am serving some static HTML files and a servlet all in a single war file from a standalone Tomcat 7.0.35 server using the HTTP Connector.
I want to specify the charset of all the static HTML files by setting the HTTP response header Content-Type=text/html;charset=UTF-8
.
Tomcat by default serves HTML files with Content-Type=text/html
(no charset portion).
I followed the instructions at:
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q8
But the header still contains Content-Type=text/html
without the ;charset=UTF-8
My web.xml is reproduced below. Note that I tried changing the url-pattern
to /*
, *
, /index.html
, and index.html
, but none of these worked.
FYI, the /index.html file is being correctly served by Tomcat (except for the missing ;charset=UTF-8
). The /getData servlet is also working correctly, and I have successfully set the servlet's responses Content-Type=text/html;charset=UTF-8
by using response.setContentType("application/json;charset=UTF-8");
.
Thanks for any help.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<filter>
<filter-name>CharacterEncoding</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CharacterEncoding</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/index.html</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DataServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.rcg.data.web.DataServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DataServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/getData</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>
</web-app>