diff --git a/server/build.gradle b/server/build.gradle
index b2c321f82..12f770a14 100644
--- a/server/build.gradle
+++ b/server/build.gradle
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ tasks.register('runServer', JavaExec) {
 }
 
 test {
-    jvmArgs = ['--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED'] // due to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/15161
+    jvmArgs = ['--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED', '-Xmx4096m'] // due to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/15161
     useJUnitPlatform()
 }
 
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/filter/RateLimitServletFilter.java b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/filter/RateLimitServletFilter.java
index 0875a636a..d4775d97a 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/filter/RateLimitServletFilter.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/filter/RateLimitServletFilter.java
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ public RateLimitServletFilter(
 
     @Override
     protected boolean shouldNotFilter(HttpServletRequest request) {
-        return !request.getRequestURI().matches(filterProperties.getUrl());
+        return !request.getServletPath().matches(filterProperties.getUrl());
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/RateLimitIntegrationTest.java b/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/RateLimitIntegrationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7a9470ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/ratelimit/RateLimitIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+/******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation.
+ *
+ * See the NOTICE file(s) distributed with this work for additional
+ * information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
+ * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *****************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.openvsx.ratelimit;
+
+import io.github.bucket4j.Bandwidth;
+import io.github.bucket4j.Bucket;
+import io.github.bucket4j.distributed.proxy.ProxyManager;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.web.server.LocalServerPort;
+import org.springframework.test.context.bean.override.mockito.MockitoBean;
+import redis.clients.jedis.JedisCluster;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.time.Duration;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
+
+@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT, properties = {
+        "ovsx.rate-limit.enabled=true",
+        "ovsx.rate-limit.filters[0].url=/(api|vscode)/.*",
+        "ovsx.elasticsearch.enabled=false"
+})
+class RateLimitIntegrationTest {
+
+    @LocalServerPort
+    int port;
+
+    @Autowired
+    TestRestTemplate restTemplate;
+
+    @MockitoBean
+    JedisCluster jedisCluster;
+
+    @MockitoBean
+    ProxyManager<byte[]> proxyManager;
+
+    @MockitoBean
+    RateLimitService rateLimitService;
+
+    @MockitoBean
+    IdentityService identityService;
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    void setUp() {
+        var bucket = Bucket.builder()
+                .addLimit(Bandwidth.builder().capacity(100).refillGreedy(100, Duration.ofHours(1)).build())
+                .build();
+        Mockito.when(rateLimitService.getBucket(any()))
+                .thenReturn(RateLimitService.BucketPair.of(bucket, new RateLimitService.MinimumBandwidth(100, 0)));
+
+        var identity = new ResolvedIdentity("1.2.3.4", "ip_1.2.3.4", null, null, null);
+        Mockito.when(identityService.resolveIdentity(any())).thenReturn(identity);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void normalApiPath_isRateLimited() {
+        var response = restTemplate.getForEntity(uri("/api/-/search"), String.class);
+        assertThat(response.getHeaders().getFirst("X-RateLimit-Limit")).isEqualTo("100");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void normalVscodePath_isRateLimited() {
+        var response = restTemplate.getForEntity(uri("/vscode/gallery/extensionquery"), String.class);
+        assertThat(response.getHeaders().getFirst("X-RateLimit-Limit")).isEqualTo("100");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void percentEncodedApiPath_isRateLimited() {
+        var response = restTemplate.getForEntity(uri("/%61pi/-/search"), String.class);
+        assertThat(response.getHeaders().getFirst("X-RateLimit-Limit")).isEqualTo("100");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void percentEncodedVscodePath_isRateLimited() {
+        var response = restTemplate.getForEntity(uri("/%76scode/gallery/extensionquery"), String.class);
+        assertThat(response.getHeaders().getFirst("X-RateLimit-Limit")).isEqualTo("100");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void nonApiPath_isNotRateLimited() {
+        var response = restTemplate.getForEntity(uri("/login"), String.class);
+        assertThat(response.getHeaders().getFirst("X-RateLimit-Limit")).isNull();
+    }
+
+    private URI uri(String path) {
+        return URI.create("http://localhost:" + port + path);
+    }
+}