Not able to escape / in VBCS

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Not able to escape / in VBCS when invoking Rest Service

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Hi All, 

I am consuming rest Service 

http://hostname:port/lbsapi/location/{location} 

Ex-http://hostname:port/lbsapi/location/Shell Toa Payoh Lor 1 248/1 

But when I am invoking this URL using VBCS it is failing with below Error 

GET https://hostname:port/lbsapi/location/Shell Toa Payoh Lor 1 248/1 403 (Forbidden) 

The same is working in Postman. 

I believe it's because of /. I tried passing %2F in place of / but it is getting encoded like %252F. 

Please help.

Thanks in advance

Thanks 
Disha 

Version

19.1.3