Coding forward and backward slashes in tomcat 7?

Question

I try send request like http://site.com/abc%2Fabc and it doesn\'t work (send status 400). How I understand tomcat doesn\'t accept encoded path separators for security reasons, b

Answer 1

We can also add this entry "org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH=true" in catalina.properties to allow encoded slash in url.

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And to allow backslash you have to set different properties. Refer this url for different configuration.