Characters of external catalog Url overwritten

Hi all,
Iu2019ve defined an external web service for an vendor shop.
The Url u201Chttp://xxxxxx.yyyyyy.de/cgi-bin/epssystem.dll?SAPLogin?SID=5u201D has been used as the first parameter (parameter type URL). When I try to call the web-shop in SRM 7.0 via portal the error HTTP 400 appears.
Iu2019ve made an trace of the punchout call:
http://xxxxxx.yyyyyy.de/cgi-bin/epssystem.dll?sap-client=100&sap-language=D.......
The system has overwritten the string u201C?SAPLogin?SID=5u201D. When I add this string manually the catalog call works fine.
In SRM 5.0 this was no problem.
Iu2019ve checked the FM /SAPSRM/CLL_WST_CALL which is reading the customizing of the web service and the import parameter ev_call_url is fine.
I havenu2019t found the coding where all the parameters are added to the URL to analyse the issue.
Thanks for all of your inputs.
Regards
Stefan

I've created an oss note and got following response:
Dear Customer,
After the note 1342873 was released there were some updates from
Portal component (refer note 1283595).
According to this if there are special characters like '?' in the URL
or in any other parameters, then this character will not be passed.
(refer point no 3 in the note).
For that reason, this type of URL is not anymore supported by portal.
Unfortunately, you need to contact your catalog vendor and ask for a
new URL to launch the catalog.
Regards,
Dripto

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        Mike Anecito
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