only space in URL of a GET request in Rest causes 404

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Team,

I have created a search API and made it as GET request. Now when I try to give only a single space in search, it gives me 404 resource not found error. For example:

http://localhost:8080/myproject/myapp/search/ ?pageNo=1&limit=20

As you can see there is a space in the URL after /search/. This URL returns me the error 404. I'm using Spring 4.x version.

Thanks

Why the space? URLs are not supposed to have them. If you need a space as a part of something else, use the hex value or a `+`: `https://www.google.com/?q=my+name` — cst1992, Mar 29 '16 at 12:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 12:16

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The URL is invalid with a space between the URL part and the request parameter string '?'. You need to encode the URL to replace characters like space with '%20'.

Try:

String encodedUrl = URLEncoder.encode(url, "UTF-8");

answered Mar 29 '16 at 12:16

pczeus

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plus 1 for the aom avatar :) – Murat Karagöz Mar 29 '16 at 12:18
Even after putting %20 between the URL and the request parameters, the request is not coming to the server.I mean I'm still getting 404 error. – Zeeshan Mar 30 '16 at 06:15

svichkar · Answer 2 · 2016-03-29T12:34:49.607

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You can also trim all spaces before your query goes to request URL. Not sure that user need to have ability to search by space (nothing).

And using of URLEncoder for strings coming to URL is very recommended.

edited Mar 29 '16 at 12:34

answered Mar 29 '16 at 12:22

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only space in URL of a GET request in Rest causes 404

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