Http_get encoding - unicode issue

Question

Hi all,
i have an was nw2004s unicode system and I want to use function http_get to see the contents of a file.
with se37 testing i get english characters correct, but greek characters come wrong.
I performed tests with creating a file with  notepad and saving it in all availbale formats (ansi,unicode,utf8).
Can you help?

Answer 1

What version of OSB/ALSB you are using? Because the support for HTTP verbs, is a new feature introduced as described in article 'Using REST with Oracle Service Bus' at http://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/osb/
AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 (as well as 2.x releases of ALSB) supports GET and POST use cases, but does not have developer friendly support for HTTP verbs PUT and DELETE out of the box. For GET requests, pertinent information is available in the $inbound/ctx:transport/ctx:request/http:relative-URI variable. To parse query string information, use $inbound/ctx:transport/ctx:request/http:query-string. A common pattern for HTTP GET is to use XQuery parsing functions on that variable to extract extra path detail, but the $body variable will be empty. For POST requests, the same applies, but the $body variable may have a message payload submitted as xml, text, or some other format.
I have heard from product management that first class support for HTTP verbs such as PUT and DELETE is planned in the next release of OSB, which is scheduled sometime in the Fall of 2008. For customers that require PUT and DELETE verb support immediately, OSB does have a transport SDK, which could be used to add inbound and outbound REST support. That approach would require some development. There are other inbound options besides the transport SDK, such as a basic approach of deploying an HTTP servlet with doDelete() and doPut() implemented. This servlet could be deployed on OSB instances and forward to specific proxies to provide PUT and DELETE support. An outbound option would be to use a java call-out to invoke a REST style provider.