Re: IWS Rest Service Get and 404 Error when Special Characters in a Parameter

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's the parameter defined as?

I can see it failing if defined as a number..

Charles

On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> HI All,
>
> I have a customer who has a REST service deployed with IWS that is being
> passed a URL parameter that contains a dash. The call works when no dashes
> are in the parameters, but the service throws a 404 error right away when a
> dash or other special character is found, even when the value is URL
> encoded.
>
> This call works. No dash.
> http://1.1.1.1/web/services/SVC001/42192032701/
>
> This fails with 404 error because of the dash
> http://1.1.1.1/web/services/SVC001/42-192032701/
>
> It looks like all parms are defined correctly in the IWS service and the
> RPG seems fine.
>
> Any thoughts on cause ?
>
> Input appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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