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Federation Transaction Fails with Forms Authentication (179120)

Symptom:

Federation transaction fails with forms authentication when objects or entities are defined in French or Japanese characters with users either in French or Japanese.

Solution:

Update the standalone.xml file of Jboss 6.1 to include the system properties for URL Encoding.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the standalone.xml file available at the following location, in a text editor:

   Jboss_install_dir/standalone/configuration
   

2. Add the following lines after the <extensions> tag and before the <management> tag:

   <system-properties>
   <property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING" value="UTF-8"/>
   <property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.USE_BODY_ENCODING_FOR_QUERY_STRING" value="true"/>
   </system-properties>
   

3. Save and close the text editor.