HTTP 403 error on a post request with an apostrophe in JBoss EWS 1.0.2
Issue
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Getting a HTTP 403 error when submitting a post request with an apostrophe character
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Relevant log without apostrophe:
10.1.232.7 - - [07/Aug/2012:13:25:50 -0500] "POST /some_url/Text HTTP/1.1" 200 120 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1" 743827
- Relevant log with apostrophe:
10.1.232.7 - - [07/Aug/2012:13:52:21 -0500] "POST /some_url/%27Text HTTP/1.1" 403 257 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1" 670
Environment
- JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS) 1.0.2
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