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

The URI is encoded as UTF-8, but Tomcat is decoding them as ISO-8859-1. You need to edit the connector settings in the server.xml and add the URIEncoding="UTF-8" attribute.

or edit this parameter on your application.properties

server.tomcat.uri-encoding=utf-8