I use Apache Commons FileUpload to receive uploaded files in a Servlet, as described at http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/java.html#fileforms
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload();
FileItemIterator iterator = upload.getItemIterator(request);
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
FileItemStream item = iterator.next();
InputStream stream = item.openStream();
if (!item.isFormField()) {
System.out.println("Got an uploaded file: " + item.getFieldName()
+ ", name = " + item.getName() + " type = " + item.getContentType());
}
I am not sure if item.getContentType() also will coutain the file encoding for text files which could be different from the request encoding, (for example ISO-8859-1), or if it always only contains the file type only. In my tests I received only "text/plain" but I was expecting "text/plain; Encoding=ISO-8859-1" which has been sent from the client.
Is my understanding correct that the item.getContentType() should include the encoding (if it is sent from client)?