Question

Here is my code (seen on Google App Engine)

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {       
    response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
    response.setHeader("testHeader1", "hi");  // Works fine
    response.setHeader("testHeader2", "שלום"); // Header not visible on Chrome client
    response.sendRedirect("/myUrl#שלום"); // Redirect does not work on browser (302 sent but Location header is absent)

Thanks!

Answer 1

The RFC 2047 specifies about non-ASCII characters in headers, but most of the servers and browsers does not support yet.

So, if you want to send non-ASCII characters, you should be encoding the text to ASCII and send.

You can use java.net.URLEncoder to encode while redirecting and java.net.URLDecoder to decode at the other end.