Tomcat 8 is not able to handle get request with ‘|’ in query parameters?
This behavior is introduced in all major Tomcat releases: Tomcat 7.0.73, 8.0.39, 8.5.7 To fix, do one of the following: set relaxedQueryChars to allow this character (recommended, see Lincoln’s answer) set requestTargetAllow option (deprecated in Tomcat 8.5) (see Jérémie’s answer). you can downgrade to one of older versions (not recommended – security) Based on changelog, … Read more