Spring 5.0.3 RequestRejectedException: The request was rejected because the URL was not normalized

Question

Not sure if this is a bug with Spring 5.0.3 or a new feature to fix things on my end.

After the upgrade, I am getting this error. Interestingly this error is only on

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem with:

Spring Boot version = 1.5.10
Spring Security version = 4.2.4

The problem occurred on the endpoints, where the ModelAndView viewName was defined with a preceding forward slash. Example:

ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView("/your-view-here");

If I removed the slash it worked fine. Example:

ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView("your-view-here");

I also did some tests with RedirectView and it seemed to work with a preceding forward slash.