Html5 routing with Spring and Angular

I'm trying to implement HTML5 routing with Spring-boot and Angular 1.5, following this article.

At some point I need to redirect all the angular routes to the base path with a controller like this:

@Controller
 public class UrlController {
  // Match everything without a suffix (so not a static resource)
  @RequestMapping(value = "/{path:[^\\.]*}"))
  public String redirect(HttpServletRequest request) {
    // Forward to home page so that route is preserved.
    return "forward:/";
  }
}

While the regular expression matches most of the URLS, like dashboard, search etc:

 2016-08-05 16:39:58 DEBUG o.s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping:306 - Looking up handler method for path /dashboard
 2016-08-05 16:39:58 DEBUG o.s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping:313 - Returning handler method UrlController.redirect(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,java.lang.String)]
 2016-08-05 16:39:58 DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory:251 - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'urlController'
 2016-08-05 16:39:58 DEBUG o.s.w.s.DispatcherServlet:947 - Last-Modified value for [/dashboard] is: -1
 2016-08-05 16:39:58 DEBUG c.a.a.w.i.LoggingInterceptor:22 - Start processing url request: https://localhost:8443/dashboard
 redirecting to home page from url https://localhost:8443/dashboard
 2016-08-05 16:39:58 DEBUG c.a.a.w.i.LoggingInterceptor:35 - Finished processing url request: https://localhost:8443/dashboard, duration: 0[ms]

Others are ignored and not matched at all, like https://localhost:8443/faults/64539352

 2016-08-05 17:00:05 DEBUG o.s.w.s.DispatcherServlet:861 - DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet' processing GET request for [/faults/64539352]
 2016-08-05 17:00:05 DEBUG o.s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping:306 - Looking up handler method for path /faults/64539352
 2016-08-05 17:00:05 DEBUG o.s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping:316 - Did not find handler method for [/faults/64539352]

The regular expression seems to be fine if you test it in regexplanet , but it does not match what I want if I put it in the @RequestMapping. Does anybody know how to make it work, or even better how to do it without regular expressions?

The problem and solution is described here. The solution consist in the implementation of a OncePerRequestFilter where you can match the full URI against whatever you want.