There must be something more to this, because there is no reason why the user 
agent should encode differently depending on the server to which the request is 
sent. At the time the request is sent, the browser does not even know what kind 
of server it is sending the request to, and reverse proxies are completely 
transparent to the browser. It is only when it receives the response that it 
knows what kind of server handled it (Server header), and that would be IIS 
anyway (unless the response was served by an Apache cache). Content negociation 
is end-to-end - not hop-by-hop.
 
Cdt
-ascs
 
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From: Computa Computa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:36 PM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POST encoding


Hi

I use Apache httpd and mod_rewrite as a reverse proxy between an IIS and 
end-users. When filling forms, strings sent from the browser to the proxy via a 
POST transaction are not encoded the same way compared to the strings sent 
directly from the browser to IIS. Here is an example bellow. As one can see, 
the string "téléphone" is encoded "t%E9l%E9phone" when sent to IIS and 
"t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phone" when sent to the Apache proxy. To my knowlegde, %E9 is a 
normal UTF-8 encoding for é, but I don't understand the encoding used by Apache 
nor does it works well with the Web application (it displays strange symbols). 
I thought it might be a content negociation problem and I set the parameters 
"DefaultLanguage fr" and "AddDefaultCharset Off". I also have all the 
AddLanguage and AddCharset. Anyone has an idea of what could be wrong ?

Thanks a lot,

Matthieu

----- From Browser to IIS -----
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
    POST /save.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n
        Request Method: POST
        Request URI: /save.asp
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
    Host: MyIisHostname\r\n
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.3) 
Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3\r\n
    Accept: 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5\r\n
    Accept-Language: fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3\r\n
    Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\n
    Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\n
    Keep-Alive: 300\r\n
    Connection: keep-alive\r\n
    Referer: http://MyIisHostname/edit.asp\r\n 
<http://MyIisHostname/edit.asp%5Cr%5Cn> 
    Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSQDCDQTD=OFEFAOMAEJGINAJBFPAHDGOD\r\n
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n
    Content-Length: 41\r\n
    \r\n
Line-based text data: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    MyVar=t%E9l%E9phone

----- From Browser to Apache reverse proxy -----
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
    POST /save.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n
        Request Method: POST
        Request URI: /save.asp
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
    Host: 10.xx.yy.iis\r\n
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.3) 
Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3\r\n
    Accept: 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5\r\n
    Accept-Language: fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3\r\n
    Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\n
    Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\n
    Referer: http://10.xx.yy.proxy/edit.asp\r\n 
<http://10.xx.yy.proxy/edit.asp%5Cr%5Cn> 
    Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSQDCDQTD=NFEFAOMACGFIOFAAMIDEJLNH\r\n
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n
    Max-Forwards: 10\r\n
    X-Forwarded-For: 10.xx.yy.browser\r\n
    X-Forwarded-Host: 10.xx.yy.proxy\r\n
    X-Forwarded-Server: ProxyHostname\r\n
    Content-Length: 53\r\n
    \r\n
Line-based text data: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    MyVar=t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phone




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