A url resource that is a dot (%2E)

I have a resource that is a . This means my url looks like this: http://myapp/index/. And i need to add query parameters so that it looks like this: http://myapp/index/.?type=xml I use Freemarker for the presentation of my resources and made a percent-encoding hack for this case:

<#if key?matches("\\.")>
<li><a href="${contextPath}/index/%2E">${key}</a></li>
</#if>

This works fine for Firefox. But all other Browsers like IE, Safari, Chrom, Opera just ignore my url encoded dot (http://myapp/index/%2E).

Any suggestions?

A url resource that is a dot (%2E)

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