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.

Answer 2

To make this workable for my by editing $CATALINA_HOME\conf\server.xml

Old Value: <Connector ... protocol="HTTP/1.1"... />

New Value: <Connector ... protocol="HTTP/1.1"... relaxedQueryChars='\ { } |' />

I am using Tomcat 7.0.88

Answer 3

Have you tried putting URIEncoding="UTF-8" in your <Connector in the server.xml?

Answer 4

There is a Tomcat option to allow encoded path separators.

Set the CATALINA_OPTS env var to

-Dorg.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH=true

This will allow encoded slashes.