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Coding forward and backward slashes in tomcat 7?

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, but I don't know how to enable this coding. (I have found only option AllowEncodedSlashes for apache http server). Can you help me?

UPDATE

I fixed this trouble using tiny hack - before render replace all '/' characters on '|' and after reverse this characters on '/'

Solution

  • 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.