UTF-8 encoding of cookies for failover authentication
You can specify the use of UTF-8 encoding for strings within failover authentication cookies in the WebSEAL configuration file.
[failover]
use-utf8 = {yes|no}The default value is yes.
When use-utf8 is set to no,
failover authentication cookies are encoded by using the local code
page. Use this value when you implement failover authentication with
versions of WebSEAL before version 5.1. WebSEAL versions before 5.1
do not use UTF-8 encoding for failover authentication cookies. When
you deploy an environment that includes these older servers, configure
the WebSEAL server to not use UTF-8 encoding. This setting is necessary
for compatibility with an earlier version.
Note: When this value is set to
no, data loss can
occur during conversion from UTF-8 to a non-UTF-8 local code page.