Tomcat 8 is not able to handle get request with '|' in query parameters?

Question

I am using Tomcat 8. In one case I need to handle external request coming from external source where the request has a parameters where it is separated by |.

Answer 1

Since Tomcat 7.0.76, 8.0.42, 8.5.12 you can define property requestTargetAllow to allow forbiden characters.

Add this line in your catalina.properties

tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow=|{}