How to prevent substitution variable recognition?

Hi, is there any way to prevent the recognition of substitution variables in a SQL worksheet? For example, I would like to run the following query in SQL Developer 2.1.1.64:
SELECT UTL_HTTP.request ('http://localhost:8088/foo/servlet/bar?x=10&y=10')
  FROM DUAL;Here, '&y' is not a substitution variable but a request parameter. Is there any way to escape the '&' sign? Or any other way to execute this query without substitution variable?
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Markus

Try this
set define offHTH,
dhalek

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