Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin uriEncoding not working with https

I'm using tomcat7-maven-plugin to run my application (tomcat7:run). I was using <uriEncoding>utf-8</uriEncoding> in configurations without https and everything was working fine. But once I added https the encoding stopped working.

When I make a request like this on client: https://localhost:8443/ROOT/checkName?mediaName=%C3%A7%C3%A7

I receive this on server: çç

Here is some of my pom.xml:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <warSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
                    <path>/${project.warname}</path>
                    <warFile>target/${project.warname}##${maven.build.timestamp}-${project.name}-v${project.version}</warFile>
                    <uriEncoding>utf-8</uriEncoding>

                    <!-- HTTPS -->
                    <httpsPort>8443</httpsPort>
                    <keystoreFile>${user.home}/.mvnkeystore</keystoreFile>
                    <keystorePass>changeit</keystorePass>
                    <!-- HTTPS -->

                </configuration>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
                        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
                        <version>5.1.25</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
                        <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
                        <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>

And web.xml:

    <security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>securedapp</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <user-data-constraint>
            <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
        </user-data-constraint>
    </security-constraint>

If I remove https tags, the uriEncondig starts working again.

It is a reported bug of the Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin - MTOMCAT-264. There is an open PR in github to fix it.

You can probably workaround it by using serverXml parameter with the caveat mentioned in the documentation.

serverXml: server.xml to use Note if you use this you must configure in this file your webapp paths.