Trying the same as you: +++ curl -v http://localhost:8080/toto ... < HTTP/1.1 404 Introuvable < Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 < Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 < Content-Length: 979 < Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:16:27 GMT < +++ Thus it is the same result as for you. Only the body of the response is wrongly encoded. For example, the e acutes (é) are replaced by the following 6 hexadecimal characters : C3 AF C2 BF C2 BD. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4252748#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...