How to set encoding UTF-8 in request post ?

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Originally posted by asmabel on September 10, 2009

Hello everybody,
I have problem with send parameter in UTF-8 encoding. When I use browser every thing is correct. When I use SOPA UI, servlet is not able recognize characters in UTF-8.
The only thing what I do in HTTP Test Request is setting encoding property to UTF-8.
Maybe I should do something more.
My POST request in SOAP UI looks like:

POST http://localhost:8080/WebTest/Test?text … 4%85%C4%85 HTTP/1.1

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Content-Type: text/xml

User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1

Host: localhost:8080

Content-Length: 0

Do you have any idea ?
Thanks for help

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Originally posted by SmartBear_Suppo on September 15, 2009

Hi,

You can manually add the Content-Type header and it will override the generated one. Go into the “Headers” tab for the request and add a new header. Name it “Content-Type” (without the quotes) and set the value to “text/xml; charset=utf-8” (again, no quotes). Good luck!

Regards,
Dain
eviware.com

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Originally posted by feckhar on December 03, 2015

Thank you for this help, setting the header in the request. If the response is coming back in IBM037, how do I set this header?

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Originally posted by nmrao on December 03, 2015

Question does not seem to be clear. Can you elaborate what you mean?

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Originally posted by feckhar on December 03, 2015

When I try to build a project in SoapUI and the input WSDL has this tag at the top –

“<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM037"?>” - it will not load.

So I tried removing the encoding or trying utf-8:

“<?xml version="1.0"?>” or “<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>”

The SoapUI project loads, the request is sent, but I get this error:

“Error getting response;javax.net.ssl.SSLException:Unrecognized SSL message,plaintext connection?” .

This makes sense, the end-point software is returning a response encoded IBM037 and I am expecting text.

I don’t know how to load the WSDL.

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Originally posted by nmrao on December 03, 2015

Looks, you opened another topic mentioning the same.

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Originally posted by bdupont on September 29, 2017

Hello, quoting:

You can manually add the Content-Type header and it will override the generated one. Go into the “Headers” tab for the request and add a new header. Name it “Content-Type” (without the quotes) and set the value to “text/xml; charset=utf-8” (again, no quotes). Good luck!

→ That’s fine for one test, but what if you want to do this for all your requests by default ?

I guess I can do that with groovy scripts, but is there an integrated way?