Beautiful, that did the trick. Thanks! Thanks /Gustav
-----Original Message----- From: Hans Orbaan [mailto:hans.orb...@docdata.eu] Sent: den 2 november 2015 15:52 To: users@camel.apache.org Subject: RE: Characters getting escaped when read from properties file Hi, Use: RAW(yourPassword) See: http://camel.apache.org/configuring-camel.html With kind regards -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Gustav Sinder [mailto:gustav.sin...@ferrologic.se] Verzonden: Monday 2 November 2015 14:46 Aan: users@camel.apache.org Onderwerp: Characters getting escaped when read from properties file Hi, I've got a password in a properties file configured as (simplified): password=H+r/GbP8 The properties file is refered to in the blueprint as: <cm:property-placeholder persistent-id="myConfig"/> The property is used for a bean with: <property name="password" value="${password}" /> The password is read from the file but as "H+r%2FGbP8" (encoded) How could I get the literal value from the properties file? If that's not possible, how do I properly escape the forward slash in the value? I've tried backslash, double backslash and so on without any success. Thanks /Gustav