diff --git a/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/request_context.js b/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/request_context.js
index 07d081f957..aa5b0ec4dc 100644
--- a/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/request_context.js
+++ b/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/request_context.js
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ RequestContext = function (executionBuffer, models, route) {
   this.typeToRegex = {
     "int": "/[0-9]+/",
     "integer": "/[0-9]+/",
-    "string": "/.+/"
+    "string": "/[^/]+/"
   };
 
   this.docs = new SwaggerDocs(this.route.docs, models);