Re: XML response is getting scrambled

If it helps, Nathan, IBM has info about how the different CgiConvMode settings react to the 'charset' keyword here:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzaie/rzag3ch1envvar.htm

(Make sure you look at Table 2, because Table 1 is for input.)

Since your content-type is not 'text/*' it will not do translation of the body, only the headers. Since you say 'utf-8', it'll try to figure out the EBCDIC equivalent of UTF-8 and translate accordingly. (No idea what that would be -- there really isn't an EBCDIC equivalent of UTF-8. I bet it assumes the job CCSID, but it doesn't say...)

If you specified text/xml, and utf-8, I suspect it doesn't translate the body of document, since there is no EBCDIC equivalent of UTF-8. On the other hand, if you had specified iso-8859-1, I bet it would translate because there is an EBCDIC equivalent of that.

But, in any case, because you're using 'application/xml' (not text/xml) it shouldn't translate.


On 7/2/2013 8:33 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Hello,

I'm writing a CGI web service that returns XML in accordance with a specification which mandates Content-Type: application/xml;charset="utf-8" in the HTTP Header.

Content-Type: text/plain works fine.

But

Content-Type: application/xml;charset="utf-8" causes the stream to get scrambled before being returned to the browser.

What is the secret to getting the encoding right?


-Nathan.