Encoded slash (/) with Spring RequestMapping path param gives HTTP 400

Question

This is not a duplicate referenced question, because it is Spring specific. Whoever added that (3 years after the fact!) didn\'t bother to read the question or comment

Answer 1

We just ran into this issue at my office, we did what was suggestion above from what Solubris said where you put it in a query param. The only additional requirement is that the data could have an '&' as well, which would mess up the query param. All we had to do is encode the text before it is sent in the URL and even '&' were filtered out.