At this point, we are familiar with the different mechanisms a browser may use to determine the character encoding of an HTML document. But how could attackers exploit this? Encoding Differentials.

By Xueming Shen The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because ...

The test checks HttpURLConnection functionality, it tries to connect to internal stab http server which generates the following response: Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 ...