Invalid character found in the request target in spring boot

Question

My application is started with java -jar with version 1.5.6.RELEASE of spring boot.
The content of one of my request has the character "{".When it is sended to server the following exception is raised:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid character found in the request target. The valid characters are defined in RFC 7230 and RFC 3986 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseRequestLine(Http11InputBuffer.java:472) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:683) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:868) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1455) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Where is wrong? How do I fix it?

EDIT1:
My rest is like this:

var jsonData = {
                    id: $("#hiddenId").val(),
                    permitNumber: $("#txtPermitNumber").val(),
                    permitToDate: $("#txtPermitToDate").val()
               }
document.location = restUrl + "/print?reportParams= " + JSON.stringify(jsonData);

Laurettalaurette

Answer 1

According to https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/systemprops.html, requestTargetAllow is deprecated. For me, the other solutions presented here did not work either. According to the Tomcat documentation I found a way to set the property relaxedQueryChars instead:

@Bean
public ConfigurableServletWebServerFactory webServerFactory() {
    TomcatServletWebServerFactory factory = new TomcatServletWebServerFactory();
    factory.addConnectorCustomizers(new TomcatConnectorCustomizer() {
        @Override
        public void customize(Connector connector) {
            connector.setProperty("relaxedQueryChars", "|{}[]");
        }
    });
    return factory;
}

Olympus

where I can find this configure in eclipse? @Matthias Lohr – Justle

Not sure what you mean with "find". This is code for a Java Bean. There's nothing Eclipse related here. – Olympus

Thank you, this config works great for me – Adlare

Answer 2

For a Spring Boot application, just add to properties file:

server.tomcat.relaxed-query-chars=|,{,},[,]

There is also the following key: server.tomcat.relaxed-path-chars

Telemotor

Answer 3

you will start your Spring boot app like this

$ java -jar -Dtomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow=|{}
 demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

or encode uri like this

document.location = restUrl + "/print?reportParams= " + encodeURI(JSON.stringify(jsonData));

Erdah

dahanetoon service :D – Envelope

Does not work for me, seems to be ignored with Spring Boot 2.x. – Olympus

Answer 4

if you use application.yaml just add following config

server:
  tomcat:
    relaxed-query-chars: '|,{,},[,]'

Gusta

Answer 5

Easy way just add this code in your main class

System.setProperty("tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow", "{}");

Downfall

Does (also) not work for me, seems to be ignored with Spring Boot 2.x. – Olympus

Answer 6

For SpringBoot 1.5.17.RELEASE. The below code worked for me.

@Configuration
public class ServerConfig {

    @Bean
    public EmbeddedServletContainerFactory webServerFactory() {
        TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory factory = new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory();
        factory.addConnectorCustomizers(new TomcatConnectorCustomizer() {
            @Override
            public void customize(Connector connector) {
                connector.setProperty("relaxedQueryChars", "|{}[]");
            }
        });
        return factory;
    }

}

Macario

Better if the user also gives the reason for down vote. – Macario

I did not vote to the post. I suspect, it did not work by the voter, what could have happened because he is using spring boot 2. But don't worry on it, the upvote is 5 times stronger than the down. If your solution will work by me, I will vote it up. – Lymphocyte

Answer 7

For a Spring Boot application, have this in properties file:

server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns=xercesImpl.jar,xml-apis.jar,serializer.jar,xml-apis.jar,jaxb-core.jar,jaxb-api.jar

Scarcity

Answer 8

Encode it to Base 64 string at request end and decode it at the controller end.

---

Encode

btoa(string)

---

Decode:

String arr = request.getParameter();
arr = new String(Base64.getDecoder().decode(arr))

Plumbago

Answer 9

I faced the same problem and for me the problem was solved by replacing @GetMapping by @PostMapping.

Guinn