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

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.