I am using Tomcat 8. In one case I need to handle external request coming from external source where the request has a parameters where it is separated by `|`.

Request is looks like this:

`http://localhost:8080/app/handleResponse?msg=name|id|`

In this case I am getting following error.

    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid character found in the request target. The valid characters are defined in RFC 7230 and RFC 3986
    	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseRequestLine(Http11InputBuffer.java:467)
    	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:667)
    	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
    	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:789)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1455)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

**EDIT 1**

It works with Apache Tomcat 8.0.30 but not with Tomcat 8.5


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