URLs containing a backslash (%5C) yield bad request errors

[Former user]

Reported by folke: Requesting an url containing a backslash yield a blank page, due to a bad request error from tomcat:

Status=Bad Request - 400 Date=Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:26:58 GMT Server=Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Length=0 Via=1.1 www.bibsonomy.org, 1.1 www.bibsonomy.org Content-Type=text/plain Connection=close

How to reproduce: http://www.bibsonomy.org/te%5Cst

[Former user]

Commented by wla: it is a bug in tomcat, was fixed in 6.10 see http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_6.0.10

[Stephan Doerfel]

I guess we should migrate then... Bug still exists. 24.07.2013

[Daniel Zoller]

fixed config on all production machines