IT27020: DATAPOWER DOES NOT PROCESS HTTP HEADER VALUE CORRECTLY FOR THE SUPPLEMENT LATIN-1 CHARACTERS

Fix packs for DataPower Gateway version 2018.4, 7.7
Fix packs for DataPower Gateway version 7.6

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When using GatewayScript & XSLT extensions to get/set the HTTP
  header value, it does not get the correct result for Latin-1
  supplement characters, i.e. code range from 0x80 to 0xFF.
  
  The HTTP header value is encoded in ISO-8859-1 character set and
  if user use XSLT extensions, e.g. <dp:request-header/> or
  <dp:set-reponse-header/>, or GatewayScript's header-metadata
  module to manipulate the header value, the character does not be
  converted correctly for the code range from 0x80 to 0xFF.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• DataPower might not process the encoding of an HTTP Header value
  with special characters correctly.
  

Problem conclusion

• Fix is available in 7.6.0.13 and 2018.4.1.1
  For a list of the latest fix packs available, please see:
  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21237631
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  DATAPOWER

• Fixed component ID

  DP1234567

Applicable component levels