diff --git a/router/gin/endpoint.go b/router/gin/endpoint.go
index 53eb1f379..5f414f730 100644
--- a/router/gin/endpoint.go
+++ b/router/gin/endpoint.go
@@ -21,10 +21,19 @@ const requestParamsAsterisk string = "*"
 // HandlerFactory creates a handler function that adapts the gin router with the injected proxy
 type HandlerFactory func(*config.EndpointConfig, proxy.Proxy) gin.HandlerFunc
 
-// EndpointHandler implements the HandleFactory interface using the default ToHTTPError function
+// ErrorResponseWriter writes the string representation of an error into the response body
+// and sets a Content-Type header for errors that implement the encodedResponseError interface.
+var ErrorResponseWriter = func(c *gin.Context, statusCode int, err error) {
+	if te, ok := err.(encodedResponseError); ok && te.Encoding() != "" {
+		c.Header("Content-Type", te.Encoding())
+	}
+	c.Writer.WriteString(err.Error())
+}
+
+// EndpointHandler implements the HandlerFactory interface using the default ToHTTPError function
 var EndpointHandler = CustomErrorEndpointHandler(logging.NoOp, server.DefaultToHTTPError)
 
-// CustomErrorEndpointHandler returns a HandleFactory using the injected ToHTTPError function and logger
+// CustomErrorEndpointHandler returns a HandlerFactory using the injected ToHTTPError function and logger
 func CustomErrorEndpointHandler(logger logging.Logger, errF server.ToHTTPError) HandlerFactory {
 	return func(configuration *config.EndpointConfig, prxy proxy.Proxy) gin.HandlerFunc {
 		cacheControlHeaderValue := fmt.Sprintf("public, max-age=%d", int(configuration.CacheTTL.Seconds()))
@@ -83,16 +92,15 @@ func CustomErrorEndpointHandler(logger logging.Logger, errF server.ToHTTPError)
 				}
 
 				if response == nil {
+					var statusCode int
 					if t, ok := err.(responseError); ok {
-						c.Status(t.StatusCode())
+						statusCode = t.StatusCode()
 					} else {
-						c.Status(errF(err))
+						statusCode = errF(err)
 					}
+					c.Status(statusCode)
 					if returnErrorMsg {
-						if te, ok := err.(encodedResponseError); ok && te.Encoding() != "" {
-							c.Header("Content-Type", te.Encoding())
-						}
-						c.Writer.WriteString(err.Error())
+						ErrorResponseWriter(c, statusCode, err)
 					}
 					cancel()
 					return
diff --git a/router/gin/engine.go b/router/gin/engine.go
index 1dab75a27..61a8de9e1 100644
--- a/router/gin/engine.go
+++ b/router/gin/engine.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package gin
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
@@ -136,12 +137,12 @@ func paramChecker() gin.HandlerFunc {
 		for _, param := range c.Params {
 			s, err := url.PathUnescape(param.Value)
 			if err != nil {
-				c.String(http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Sprintf("error: %s", err))
+				ErrorResponseWriter(c, http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Errorf("error: %s", err))
 				c.AbortWithStatus(http.StatusBadRequest)
 				return
 			}
 			if s != param.Value || strings.Contains(s, "?") || strings.Contains(s, "#") {
-				c.String(http.StatusBadRequest, "error: encoded url params")
+				ErrorResponseWriter(c, http.StatusBadRequest, errors.New("error: encoded url params"))
 				c.AbortWithStatus(http.StatusBadRequest)
 				return
 			}