Dollar Sign in URL getting encoded

Seems to be an issue with URL encoding

We have an endpoint to get the with $ sign

http://localhost:8080/myaccount/rest/v1/orders/$count

So when we send the request the URL is encoded as

http://localhost:8080/myaccount/rest/v1/orders/%24count

But $ is a reserved URL character per the below spec and should be ok to use like other reserved characters ( +, *, / , : etc.) which don’t get encoded

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.2

Other framework like jersyclient , angular, springresettemplate all respects this and not encode $ sign.

The workaround is to disable the URL encoding , but shouldn’t be this taken care and not encoded at first place.

[agrishkan]

there is a work-around with RequestSpecBuilder: RequestSpecification spec = new RequestSpecBuilder().setUrlEncodingEnabled(false); spec.setBaseUri(...); Then it won’t escape the $ character.

[johanhaleby]

It sounds like something that ought to be fixed. And now that you’ve digged into the code already it would be great if you could help out with a pull request 😃