I've setup Apache to use mod_rewrite to proxy requests to Tomcat... I found this much easier to configure the way I want than using mod_jk... however, I'm having a slight problem: Executing a Tomcat JSP that supports UTF-8 encoding directly to Tomcat over it's port 8080 works fine... however, if I use an Apache rewrite rule to proxy the request then the characters are getting translated incorrectly in the response coming through Apache... Any ideas? Tomcat content encoding is correct... however I can not find anywhere to specify a character set translation or encoding option for the proxy module... also, the proxied pages coming back from Apache are in the correct character set, UTF-8, (except character substitution was done to replace unrecognized unicode characters with \ufffd) and the problem appears to be in the proxying engine... Thanks, Cliff.