Avoid file extension detection in Spring MVC request mapping with floating point number in URI

Question

I used Spring Boot to implement a REST application. I have one resource that is mapped like this

@RequestMapping(value = \"/{fromLat}/{fromLon}/{toLat}/{toL         


        

Answer 1

I had similar issues with Spring Boot as described here.

What worked for me is the following configuration:

@Configuration
public class WebMvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void configurePathMatch(PathMatchConfigurer configurer) {
        configurer.setUseSuffixPatternMatch(false);

    }


}

Answer 2

In Spring Framework 4.1.9 and 4.2.3 the Content-Disposition header was fixed to use the "inline" type which only suggests a file download name, should the content end up being downloaded. It won't force a Save As dialog any more.

Note also that the reason for the Content-Disposition header in the first place is to protect applications against RFD attacks. This is a very complex issue but you can see a summary in the CVE-2015-5211 report.

Answer 3

Did you try to set:

1) Content-Disposition: inline; -> you can use:

return new ResponseEntity(body, headers, statusCode); and set Content-Disposition in headers. Look here: How to set 'Content-Disposition' and 'Filename' when using FileSystemResource to force a file download file? and Return a stream with Spring MVC's ResponseEntity

2) text/x-json - Experimental MIME type for JSON before application/json got officially registered.

@RequestMapping(value = "/{fromLat}/{fromLon}/{toLat}/{toLon:.+}", method = {RequestMethod.GET},
                produces = {"text/x-json"})

It will try to display the content instead of downloading it.

Hope it will help.