tomcat8.5

AFTER upgrade from Spring boot 1.2 to 1.5.2, FileNotFoundException during Tomcat 8.5 Startup

RootCause: As per Tomcat Wiki, Servlet 3.0 specification requires Jar scanning during server startup. Tomcat is using org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner for this purpose. From the javadoc of StandardJarScanner. The default JarScanner implementation scans the WEB-INF/lib directory followed by the provided classloader and then works up the classloader hierarchy. This implementation is sufficient to meet the requirements of … Read more

Tomcat 8 is not able to handle get request with ‘|’ in query parameters?

This behavior is introduced in all major Tomcat releases: Tomcat 7.0.73, 8.0.39, 8.5.7 To fix, do one of the following: set relaxedQueryChars to allow this character (recommended, see Lincoln’s answer) set requestTargetAllow option (deprecated in Tomcat 8.5) (see Jérémie’s answer). you can downgrade to one of older versions (not recommended – security) Based on changelog, … Read more