CXF stack trace returned to client for java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character

Issue can be observed by first installing the soap quickstart in Fuse: osgi:install -s mvn:org.jboss.quickstarts.fuse/cxf-soap/6.3.0.redhat-446 Then send the following CURL POST request: $ curl -XPOST "localhost:8181/cxf/HelloWorld/<>" ... Server Error</pre></p><h3>Caused by:</h3><pre>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in path at index 37: http: //localhost:8181/cxf/HelloWorld/&lt;&gt; at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:852) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.BaseUrlHelper.getBaseURL(BaseUrlHelper.java:47) ...