LI81127: CONTENT TYPE CHARSET SETTING LOST AFTER REDACTION POLICY

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When using the Redaction Policy to hide some sensitive
  information the response from gateway looses the content type
  settings in response headers as it is always replaced by
  "application/json".
  Steps to reproduce:
  1- create an API with assembly containing a
  - set variable policy to explicitly set the
  message.headers.content-type to for example
  'application/json; charset=UTF-8'
  - invoke policy with a target such as
  'https://httpbin.org/anything/test'
  - redact policy
  2- check content type. It will be 'application/json' instead of
  'application/json; charset=UTF-8'
  3- remove the redact policy
  4- check content type. It will be application/json;
  charset=UTF-8' as expected.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• The redact policy incorrectly removes the charset from the
  content-type when it parses the payload.
  

Problem conclusion

• <p>A fix will be delivered in the API Connect 5.0.8.8 and
  2018.4.1.8 GA releases.</p>
  

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

  API CONNECT ENT

• Fixed component ID

  5725Z2201

Applicable component levels

• R50X PSY

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