postman could not handle unicode characters in url for routing

Question

I have defined an API Resource in WSO2 ESB like this with GET method:

/sms/{username}/{password}/{src}/{destination}/{body}

Now if I invoke my API through a standard browser like chrome or firefox it works fine and I get response code ok 200

127.x.x.x:8280/sms/username/password/123123123/456456456/سلام

But I can not invoke this API through Postman and it returns Not-Found 404. If I replace 'سلام' with a standard ascii string like 'hello' it works fine and it returns code ok 200:

127.x.x.x:8280/sms/username/password/123123123/456456456/hello

I tried numerous Content-Types in Headers tab of postman including this but it didn't work:

text/html; charset=UTF-8

I also monitored network requests with fiddler. Standard browser send request with this parameters:

Connection: keep-alive Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9

And Postman send request with this parameters:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 cache-control: no-cache Postman-Token: 5ccc574f-54d2-4c5b-ac72-b0f5f5a8e0be User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.3.0 Accept: / accept-encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: keep-alive

I use postman v6.4.4

@senthalan Yes, it worked, `سلام` should be encoded to `%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85` could you please write down your comment as an answer? So I can check it as correct answer. — Masoud Keshavarz, Nov 10 '18 at 08:26

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '18 at 17:11

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You need to manually encode parts of the URL.

Try this https://stackoverflow.com/a/49964318/9624430

answered Nov 10 '18 at 17:11

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 09 '18 at 08:50

I tried this issue with WSO2 ESB 5.0.0. It works for me as you expected through postman.

<api xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="test-api" context="/test">
   <resource methods="GET" uri-template="/value/{val1}">
      <inSequence>
         <log level="full">
            <property name="test" expression="get-property('uri.var.val1')"/>
         </log>
         <payloadFactory media-type="json">
            <format>{ "test": "$1"}</format>
            <args>
               <arg evaluator="xml" expression="get-property('uri.var.val1')"/>
            </args>
         </payloadFactory>
         <respond/>
      </inSequence>
      <outSequence>
         <send/>
      </outSequence>
   </resource>
</api>

Request: http://localhost:8280/test/value/سلام

Response:

{
    "test": "سلام"
}

Try with WSO2 ESB 5.0.0.

Thanks but we are using WSO2 ESB 6.4. We prefer to don't maintain multiple versions of WSO2. It would be nice if someone could confirm that it is a known issue with v6.4. — Masoud Keshavarz, Nov 10 '18 at 08:20

postman could not handle unicode characters in url for routing

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