[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBAS-3445) Testcase for UTF-8 support with FORM Authentication

[Haohua xie (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3445?page=comments#action_12365539 ] 
            
Haohua xie commented on JBAS-3445:
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My Solution:
I am a chinese and I am writing a website for chinese. every page in my web site is of utf-8. I use form-based authentication and org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DatabaseServerLoginModule to authenticate my users. When some of my users create their accounts with chinese characters in their login id, they can't login because DatabaseServerLoginModule can't get the correctly-encoded username. So I debug into jboss authentication module. I tried to filter all request to use UTF-8 ,but I failed because authectiation request can't be filtered by the filters defined in /WEB-INF/web.xml. I find that the DatabaseServerLoginModule can't get the encoded username corretly only because the username can't be correctly fechted from request by org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator. So I need to configure org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator in order to get utf-8 encoded username.
i find the configuration here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html
I add a context.xml to /WEB-INF/ and deploy to my jboss server. Now the username can be fetched correctly now and my users can use chinese characters in their login id;
my context.xml:
<Context>
	<Valve
		className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator"
		characterEncoding="UTF-8" />
</Context>

my jboss is 4.20.GA

> Testcase for UTF-8 support with FORM Authentication
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBAS-3445
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3445
>             Project: JBoss Application Server
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: Security
>    Affects Versions: JBossAS-4.0.4.GA
>            Reporter: Anil Saldhana
>         Assigned To: Anil Saldhana
>             Fix For: JBossAS-4.2.1.CR1
>
>
> User says:
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> I have run into as well using JBoss 4.0.3SP1 (and 4.0.4GA).
> In my Web Applications, I can login with English usernames and passwords just fine.
> But when I try to login with a Russian or Chineese username, the login always fails.
> From the tracing I've done, it seems the username is getting converted to ISO-8859-1, and that's why it's failing.
> I've done all the "standard" things to make our pages UTF-8, and this does work on every page except the login page. Something about "j_security_check" is ignoring UTF-8 and forcing a conversion to "ISO-8859-1".
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