Getting IllegalArgumentException when using colon to specify port number with server vairable in rewrite rule in JBoss EAP 6.x

Issue

To force redirect to https, I configured the following global rewrite rule in web subsystem in standalone.xml

    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:2.2" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="false">
        ...
        <virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="true">
            ...
            <rewrite pattern="^/(.*)$" substitution="https://%{HTTP_HOST}:8443%{REQUEST_URI}" flags="RL">
                <condition test="%{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
            </rewrite>
        </virtual-server>
    </subsystem>

then got the following IllegalArgumentException:

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-37) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.web.host.default-host: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.host.default-host: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: https://%{HTTP_HOST}:8443%{REQUEST_URI}
    at org.jboss.as.web.WebVirtualHostService.createRewriteValve(WebVirtualHostService.java:225)
    at org.jboss.as.web.WebVirtualHostService.start(WebVirtualHostService.java:88)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1980) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1913) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [rt.jar:1.8.0_77]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [rt.jar:1.8.0_77]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.8.0_77]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: https://%{HTTP_HOST}:8443%{REQUEST_URI}
    at org.jboss.web.rewrite.Substitution.parse(Substitution.java:195)
    at org.jboss.web.rewrite.RewriteRule.parse(RewriteRule.java:45)
    at org.jboss.web.rewrite.RewriteValve.parse(RewriteValve.java:251)
    at org.jboss.web.rewrite.RewriteValve.setConfiguration(RewriteValve.java:184)
    at org.jboss.as.web.WebVirtualHostService.createRewriteValve(WebVirtualHostService.java:223)
    ... 6 more

Same issue occurred when using the followingrewrite.properties with setting rewrite valve in WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml:

   RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
   RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}:8443%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]