[jcifs] Davenport Issue Report: Square non printable characters

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Could the server be sending an incorrect character encoding value?

Michael B Allen wrote:
> My first thought was that the server is sending a Content-Type with one
> thing while the content is actually in another. That's the sort of thing
> that would cause a problem like this anyway.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 07:16:38 -0400
> "Eric Glass" <eric.glass at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is this seen in the WebDAV view, HTML view, or both?  If you can grab
>> a packet capture of the HTTP/WebDAV traffic between the client and the
>> webserver, that would likely be the easiest to troubleshoot (as that
>> would indicate whether the app is sending something strange or if it
>> is a client interpretation issue).  If it's occurring in the HTML
>> view, if you could save one of the pages and forward it for review
>> that might help too (the servlet basically generates the PROPFIND
>> result and uses XSLT to transform it to HTML, so that may be where the
>> issue is in this case).
>>
>> Finally, if you can give some environment specs (servlet
>> engine/version, platform, whether hitting app server directly or going
>> through Apache/IIS etc.) that may give some insight also.
>>
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have Davenport working in one environment with a completely
>>> unchanged web.xml file.  No customizations.  I am moving it to a new
>>> environment, and now when I fire up the same (latest version!) exact
>>> code I get little non printable character square boxes.  I've also
>>> seen chinese/japanese characters show up on other PC's!  The file
>>> size and last modified dates are correct, just the name of the file
>>> and directories shows up weird.  Also the "." this directory and ".."
>>> up one directorys show up as 1 and two character square boxes!
>>>
>>> Here is my bug report:
>>> Directories and file names show up as square boxes, instead of
>>> letters.  Alternatively, they show up as chinese characters on some
>>> PC's.
>>>
>>> The top level directories show up in normal English text:
>>>
>>> \\myserver\myshare
>>>
>>> But when I click on the "myshare" link then all the subfolders show
>>> up in boxes.  On another server I have the same version of Davenport
>>> installed, and everything works properly.  Any ideas?  Same version
>>> of Java 1.4 etc.
>>>
>>> Eric Pugh
>>>
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> 
> 

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