Hei everyone. i got a question. how to remove the charset=UTF-8 in the Content-type in Response Headers? it was an image file and i want the Content-type value to be just image/png. but instead, it has charset=UTF-8 value as well. i want to remove this because i suspect this is the cause of my cac…

In an hst component you can set content type on the hstResponse object

can you point out the path or if possible, the YAML import command? i don’t see the hstResponse inside the hst:component and i cannot set it as well. did i miss something? thanks for the reply!

when you say content-type in response headers, which request are you talking about ? /binaries/… ?

After some debugging I found that this charset=UTF-8 is added by tomcat. Couldn’t find where the config for this is however. You can set a breakpoint at org.hippoecm.hst.servlet.BinariesServlet#writeResponse method’s “response.setContentType(pageMimeType);” line and observe the response.getContentTy…

It turns out this is actually characterencodingfilter. Check out this stackoverflow thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5998875/preventing-tomcat-from-appending-charset-to-binary-content-types

alright! thank you so much for your help! i will try and see what i can do. i will reach to you again if i am stuck. thank you so much for your help!

hello again! i have tried all the suggestion that the tread mentioned. it didn’t remove the charset in content type, even after i modify the characterencodingfilter. Did i miss something or am i configuring it wrongly? can you guide me on how and where should i modify this param? thank you in adva…

Hey @kaef , I just did a quick test by changing the init param like the following: <filter> <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <…

i change it. it works! no more charset in the headers. Thank you!

Removing the charset=UTF-8 in Content-type

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kaef February 5, 2020, 9:35am 5

yes in /binaries/…

thanks for the reply!

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