Tomcat, JAX-RS, Jersey, @PathParam: how to pass dots and slashes?

Question

Having a method like this:

@GET @Path(\"/name/{name}\")
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String getProperty(@PathParam(\"name\") String name) {
                


        

Answer 1

If you using tomcat, and want pass / in pathparam. besides the @Path("/name/{name:.+}") stuff as 'Donal Fellows' said, you should add -Dorg.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH=true to your jvm arguments, see also tomcat security-howto.