URL Decoding Question 2007-08-10 - By Thoku Hansen
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Hi,
Does Tomcat decode a URL-encoded request before evaluating it against
servlet url-patterns?
I have a form whose submit action URL includes the jsessionid like this:
<form
action="Example.action;jsessionid=196273839CE41F0BFBA445F63D3880EB"
method="post">
When the form is submitted, the request is going through a kind of
proxy that performs a URL encode before forwarding the request.
When the request is received by Tomcat (v. 6.0.14) it looks like this:
http://foo/Example.action%3Bjsessionid%
3D196273839CE41F0BFBA445F63D3880EB
I have a servlet url-pattern for "*.action". It works fine for
request URLs like:
http://foo/Example.action
and also
http://foo/Example.action;jsessionid=196273839CE41F0BFBA445F63D3880EB
But when the re-encoded request URL is encountered (below again),
Tomcat gives a 404 error.
http://foo/Example.action%3Bjsessionid%
3D196273839CE41F0BFBA445F63D3880EB
I do not have any control over the proxy that is doing this re-encoding.
I have two questions:
1. Is the URL encoding that is being done in the above example
appropriate?
2. Shouldn't Tomcat be URL-decoding this and turning it into its
original form?
Hope you can shed some light on this.
Thanks,
T.
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