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bc1's avatar
bc1
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Nov 28, 2017

HTTP::Collect results in garbled HTTP::Payload when using non-english characters

Hi there, I'm using an irule to collect a POSTed payload, manipulate the content and then POST on to the back-end pool, however when non-english characters are used then the collected payload is ga...
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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Nov 29, 2017

Hi bc,

the programming language of iRules is TCL which uses always UTF-8 to represent a string. If your input contains highbit ASCII charcters (e.g. Win1252, Latin-1, ISO-8859-1) certain TCL commands will silently change the used encoding.

To reformat UTF-8 back to its ASCII representation you could try a 

set output [binary format A* $input]
. By doing so the UTF-8 encoded string representation of the 
$input
will shimmer to a binary 
$output
which is encoded in plain-ASCII.

Cheers, Kai