# Since last update of nexus repository =\> bad URL "/" encoded as "%2F"
**URL:** https://community.sonatype.com/t/since-last-update-of-nexus-repository-bad-url-encoded-as-2f/9859
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/since-last-update-of-nexus-repository-bad-url-encoded-as-2f/9859 "2023-01-04T14:04:56Z")
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### Author:  [@laurent](https://community.sonatype.com/u/laurent)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/since-last-update-of-nexus-repository-bad-url-encoded-as-2f/9859/1 "2023-01-04T14:04:57Z")
Hello,
Since we updated Nexus Repository OSS from 3.40 to 3.44, we have encountered some issues with the artifacts’ download URL in raw repositories.
As a matter of fact, the “/” is now encoded as “%2F”, whereas it was not in the 3.40 release. For example :
Back in 3.40 : [https://nexus.example.com/repository/myrepo/path/to/artifact.tar.gz](https://nexus.example.com/repository/myrepo/path/to/artifact.tar.gz)
Now in 3.44 : [https://nexus.example.com/repository/myrepo/path%2Fto%2Fartifact.tar.gz](https://nexus.example.com/repository/myrepo/path%2Fto%2Fartifact.tar.gz)
Is anyone experiencing the same trouble ? This looks very similar to this issue which was fixed a long time ago : [https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-17823](https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-17823).
Regards.
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### Author:  [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/since-last-update-of-nexus-repository-bad-url-encoded-as-2f/9859/2 "2023-01-04T18:33:19Z")
You’ll need to be more specific, where is this happening in Nexus?
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### Author:  [@ymagriso](https://community.sonatype.com/u/ymagriso)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/since-last-update-of-nexus-repository-bad-url-encoded-as-2f/9859/3 "2023-01-06T20:04:32Z")
I am also facing the same issue since upgrade from 3.43.0 to 3.45.0.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Enter the Nexus server’s URL. e.g. [http://localhost:8081/](http://localhost:8081/)
2. Go-to Browse
3. Select a Maven repository or a raw repository (doesn’t matter if it’s a hosted or group repository)
4. Navigate to an asset and select it
5. Click the selected asset’s URL
Expected result:
The asset is downloaded
Actual result:
Error 404 is encountered for an incorrect URL as reported above
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### Author:  [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/since-last-update-of-nexus-repository-bad-url-encoded-as-2f/9859/4 "2023-01-09T18:40:18Z")
This was opened as - [[NEXUS-36555] Component links in Browse UI delimit GAV paths with '%2F' instead of '/' - Sonatype JIRA](https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-36555)