Slashes problem

[Taruga]

How can I search for a string with slashes like "AC/DC" ?

GET http://api.example.com/bands/AC/DC

I've tried like:
GET http://api.example.com/bands/AC\/DC
and
GET http://api.example.com/bands/%AC/DC%

But I can't get it to work , any help ?

[mozboz]

if you want to put strings with strange characters in URLs, you usually need to URL encode them. try URL encoding AC/DC here and you'll see it's AC%2FDC . so your search string should probably be:

..../bands/AC%2FDC

[mozboz]

oops, meant to say try URL encoding here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

[Taruga]

Forgot to tell you, Tried that as well, but I don't get any output. It doesn't find it.
I have no problems with other characters like the plus sign, for ex. "abc+def". Calling the api with the encoded string I get the result, but fields that contain slashes It doesn't work
{
"error": {
"code": 404,
"status": "Not Found"
}
}

[mozboz]

That sounds like a bug then - maybe when Rester is processing parameters that come from URL's it needs some special escaping or is accidentally filtering too hard. Guess someone will need to dive into the code.