Setup URIEncoding="UTF-8" to use unversal URI encoding. http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Tomcat Some versions of Tomcat (such as 5.0.28) uses iso-8859-1 to decode URLs, which is in a clear violation of the relevant RFCs. To fix this problem, add the following URIEncoding attribute to the connector definition in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml. --- apache-tomcat-6.0.28-src/conf/server.xml~ 2010-06-29 17:33:40.000000000 +0300 +++ apache-tomcat-6.0.28-src/conf/server.xml 2010-07-20 09:12:35.045149469 +0300 @@ -68,12 +68,14 @@ --> - +