diff --git a/_examples/routing/dynamic-path/main.go b/_examples/routing/dynamic-path/main.go
index 6f6fedae..63be863f 100644
--- a/_examples/routing/dynamic-path/main.go
+++ b/_examples/routing/dynamic-path/main.go
@@ -369,5 +369,12 @@ func main() {
 	// should differ e.g.
 	// /path/{name:string}
 	// /path/{id:uint}
+	//
+	// Note:
+	// If * path part is declared at the end of the route path, then
+	// it's considered a wildcard (same as {p:path}). In order to declare
+	// literal * and over pass this limitation use the string's path parameter 'eq' function
+	// as shown below:
+	// app.Get("/*/*/{p:string eq(*)}", handler) <- This will match only: /*/*/* and not /*/*/anything.
 	app.Listen(":8080")
 }
diff --git a/core/router/path.go b/core/router/path.go
index d4f560fc..1936057a 100644
--- a/core/router/path.go
+++ b/core/router/path.go
@@ -98,19 +98,22 @@ func joinPath(path1 string, path2 string) string {
 //  6. Remove trailing '/'.
 //
 // The returned path ends in a slash only if it is the root "/".
-func cleanPath(s string) string {
+// The function does not modify the dynamic path parts.
+func cleanPath(path string) string {
 	// note that we don't care about the performance here, it's before the server ran.
-	if s == "" || s == "." {
+	if path == "" || path == "." {
 		return "/"
 	}
 
 	// remove suffix "/", if it's root "/" then it will add it as a prefix below.
-	if lidx := len(s) - 1; s[lidx] == '/' {
-		s = s[:lidx]
+	if lidx := len(path) - 1; path[lidx] == '/' {
+		path = path[:lidx]
 	}
 
 	// prefix with "/".
-	s = prefix(s, "/")
+	path = prefix(path, "/")
+
+	s := []rune(path)
 
 	// If you're learning go through Iris I will ask you to ignore the
 	// following part, it's not the recommending way to do that,
@@ -138,46 +141,34 @@ func cleanPath(s string) string {
 
 		// when inside {} then don't try to clean it.
 		if !insideMacro {
-			if s[i] == '/' {
-				if len(s)-1 >= i+1 && s[i+1] == '/' { // we have "//".
-					bckp := s
-					s = bckp[:i] + "/"
-					// forward two, we ignore the second "/" in the raw.
-					i = i + 2
-					if len(bckp)-1 >= i {
-						s += bckp[i:]
-					}
+			if s[i] == '\\' {
+				s[i] = '/'
+
+				if len(s)-1 > i+1 && s[i+1] == '\\' {
+					s = deleteCharacter(s, i+1)
+				} else {
+					i-- // set to minus in order for the next check to be applied for prev tokens too.
 				}
-				// if we have just a single slash then continue.
-				continue
 			}
 
-			if s[i] == '\\' { // this will catch "\\" and "\".
-				bckp := s
-				s = bckp[:i] + "/"
-
-				if len(bckp)-1 >= i+1 {
-					s += bckp[i+1:]
-					i++
-				}
-
-				if len(s)-1 > i && s[i] == '\\' {
-					bckp := s
-					s = bckp[:i]
-					if len(bckp)-1 >= i+2 {
-						s = bckp[:i-1] + bckp[i+1:]
-						i++
-					}
-				}
-
+			if s[i] == '/' && len(s)-1 > i+1 && s[i+1] == '/' {
+				s[i] = '/'
+				s = deleteCharacter(s, i+1)
+				i--
 				continue
 			}
-
 		}
-
 	}
 
-	return s
+	if len(s) > 1 && s[len(s)-1] == '/' { // remove any last //.
+		s = s[:len(s)-1]
+	}
+
+	return string(s)
+}
+
+func deleteCharacter(s []rune, index int) []rune {
+	return append(s[0:index], s[index+1:]...)
 }
 
 const (
diff --git a/core/router/path_test.go b/core/router/path_test.go
index 5e5c6abc..aafb9a7c 100644
--- a/core/router/path_test.go
+++ b/core/router/path_test.go
@@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ func TestCleanPath(t *testing.T) {
 			"/single/{id:uint64}",
 			"/single/{id:uint64}",
 		},
+		{
+			"0\\\\\\0",
+			"/0/0",
+		},
+		{
+			"*\\*\\*",
+			"/*/*/*",
+		},
+		{
+			"\\",
+			"/",
+		},
 	}
 
 	for i, tt := range tests {
diff --git a/core/router/route.go b/core/router/route.go
index e55a4419..457a28cd 100644
--- a/core/router/route.go
+++ b/core/router/route.go
@@ -90,12 +90,14 @@ type Route struct {
 // handlers are being changed to validate the macros at serve time, if needed.
 func NewRoute(p Party, statusErrorCode int, method, subdomain, unparsedPath string,
 	handlers context.Handlers, macros macro.Macros) (*Route, error) {
-	tmpl, err := macro.Parse(unparsedPath, macros)
+	path := cleanPath(unparsedPath) // required. Before macro template parse as the cleanPath does not modify the dynamic path route parts.
+
+	tmpl, err := macro.Parse(path, macros)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	path := convertMacroTmplToNodePath(tmpl)
+	path = convertMacroTmplToNodePath(tmpl)
 	// prepend the macro handler to the route, now,
 	// right before the register to the tree, so APIBuilder#UseGlobal will work as expected.
 	if handler.CanMakeHandler(tmpl) {
@@ -103,7 +105,6 @@ func NewRoute(p Party, statusErrorCode int, method, subdomain, unparsedPath stri
 		handlers = append(context.Handlers{macroEvaluatorHandler}, handlers...)
 	}
 
-	path = cleanPath(path) // maybe unnecessary here.
 	defaultName := method + subdomain + tmpl.Src
 	if statusErrorCode > 0 {
 		defaultName = fmt.Sprintf("%d_%s", statusErrorCode, defaultName)
@@ -506,7 +507,7 @@ func (r *Route) Trace(w io.Writer, stoppedIndex int) {
 	// s := fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", pio.Rich(title, color), path)
 	pio.WriteRich(w, title, color)
 
-	path := r.Tmpl().Src
+	path := r.tmpl.Src
 	if path == "" {
 		path = "/"
 	}
diff --git a/core/router/trie.go b/core/router/trie.go
index a22dc769..af17daec 100644
--- a/core/router/trie.go
+++ b/core/router/trie.go
@@ -9,9 +9,13 @@ import (
 const (
 	// ParamStart the character in string representation where the underline router starts its dynamic named parameter.
 	ParamStart = ":"
+	// paramStartCharacter is the character as rune of ParamStart.
+	paramStartCharacter = ':'
 	// WildcardParamStart the character in string representation where the underline router starts its dynamic wildcard
 	// path parameter.
 	WildcardParamStart = "*"
+	// wildcardParamStartCharacter is the character as rune of WildcardParamStart.
+	wildcardParamStartCharacter = '*'
 )
 
 // An iris-specific identical version of the https://github.com/kataras/muxie version 1.0.0 released at 15 Oct 2018
@@ -112,6 +116,9 @@ func slowPathSplit(path string) []string {
 
 func (tr *trie) insert(path string, route context.RouteReadOnly, handlers context.Handlers) {
 	input := slowPathSplit(path)
+	if len(input) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
 
 	n := tr.root
 	if path == pathSep {
@@ -121,9 +128,13 @@ func (tr *trie) insert(path string, route context.RouteReadOnly, handlers contex
 	var paramKeys []string
 
 	for _, s := range input {
+		if len(s) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		c := s[0]
 
-		if isParam, isWildcard := c == ParamStart[0], c == WildcardParamStart[0]; isParam || isWildcard {
+		if isParam, isWildcard := c == paramStartCharacter, c == wildcardParamStartCharacter; isParam || isWildcard {
 			n.hasDynamicChild = true
 			paramKeys = append(paramKeys, s[1:]) // without : or *.
 
@@ -166,7 +177,6 @@ func (tr *trie) insert(path string, route context.RouteReadOnly, handlers contex
 	}
 
 	n.staticKey = path[:i]
-
 	// fmt.Printf("trie.insert: (whole path=%v) Path: %s, Route name: %s, Handlers len: %d\n", n.end, n.key, route.Name(), len(handlers))
 }
 
@@ -192,15 +202,26 @@ func (tr *trie) search(q string, params *context.RequestParams) *trieNode {
 
 	for {
 		if i == end || q[i] == pathSepB {
-			if child := n.getChild(q[start:i]); child != nil {
+			segment := q[start:i]
+			if child := n.getChild(segment); child != nil {
 				n = child
+				// Possible reserved param character, should catch it as
+				// dynamic node instead of static-path based.
+				if segment == ParamStart { // len(n.paramKeys) > 0 && (segment == ParamStart || segment == WildcardParamStart)
+					if ln := len(paramValues); cap(paramValues) > ln {
+						paramValues = paramValues[:ln+1]
+						paramValues[ln] = segment
+					} else {
+						paramValues = append(paramValues, segment)
+					}
+				}
 			} else if n.childNamedParameter {
 				n = n.getChild(ParamStart)
 				if ln := len(paramValues); cap(paramValues) > ln {
 					paramValues = paramValues[:ln+1]
-					paramValues[ln] = q[start:i]
+					paramValues[ln] = segment
 				} else {
-					paramValues = append(paramValues, q[start:i])
+					paramValues = append(paramValues, segment)
 				}
 			} else if n.childWildcardParameter {
 				n = n.getChild(WildcardParamStart)
@@ -213,7 +234,7 @@ func (tr *trie) search(q string, params *context.RequestParams) *trieNode {
 				break
 			} else {
 				n = n.findClosestParentWildcardNode()
-				if n != nil {
+				if n != nil && len(n.paramKeys) > 0 {
 					// means that it has :param/static and *wildcard, we go trhough the :param
 					// but the next path segment is not the /static, so go back to *wildcard
 					// instead of not found.
@@ -248,7 +269,7 @@ func (tr *trie) search(q string, params *context.RequestParams) *trieNode {
 
 	if n == nil || !n.end {
 		if n != nil { // we need it on both places, on last segment (below) or on the first unnknown (above).
-			if n = n.findClosestParentWildcardNode(); n != nil {
+			if n = n.findClosestParentWildcardNode(); n != nil && len(n.paramKeys) > 0 {
 				params.Set(n.paramKeys[0], q[len(n.staticKey):])
 				return n
 			}
@@ -263,6 +284,10 @@ func (tr *trie) search(q string, params *context.RequestParams) *trieNode {
 			// the /other2/*myparam and not the root wildcard, which is what we want.
 			//
 			n = tr.root.getChild(WildcardParamStart)
+			if len(n.paramKeys) == 0 { // fix crashes on /*/*/*.
+				return nil
+			}
+
 			params.Set(n.paramKeys[0], q[1:])
 			return n
 		}
diff --git a/macro/handler/handler.go b/macro/handler/handler.go
index 948a8c0b..6fd1d771 100644
--- a/macro/handler/handler.go
+++ b/macro/handler/handler.go
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ func MakeFilter(tmpl macro.Template) context.Filter {
 			entry, found := ctx.Params().Store.GetEntryAt(p.Index)
 			if !found {
 				// should never happen.
+				ctx.StatusCode(p.ErrCode) // status code can change from an error handler, set it here.
 				return false
 			}
 
diff --git a/macro/interpreter/parser/parser.go b/macro/interpreter/parser/parser.go
index a489298e..c50d9696 100644
--- a/macro/interpreter/parser/parser.go
+++ b/macro/interpreter/parser/parser.go
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func Parse(fullpath string, paramTypes []ast.ParamType) ([]*ast.ParamStatement,
 		}
 		// if we have param type path but it's not the last path part
 		if ast.IsTrailing(stmt.Type) && i < len(pathParts)-1 {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: parameter type \"%s\" should be registered to the very end of a path", s, stmt.Type.Indent())
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: parameter type \"%s\" should be registered to the very end of a path once", s, stmt.Type.Indent())
 		}
 
 		statements = append(statements, stmt)
diff --git a/macro/macros.go b/macro/macros.go
index 48264654..7b7c19d0 100644
--- a/macro/macros.go
+++ b/macro/macros.go
@@ -50,6 +50,31 @@ var (
 			return func(paramValue string) bool {
 				return max >= len(paramValue)
 			}
+		}).
+		// checks if param value's matches the given input
+		RegisterFunc("eq", func(s string) func(string) bool {
+			return func(paramValue string) bool {
+				return paramValue == s
+			}
+		}).
+		// checks if param value's matches at least one of the inputs
+		RegisterFunc("eqor", func(texts []string) func(string) bool {
+			if len(texts) == 1 {
+				text := texts[0]
+				return func(paramValue string) bool {
+					return paramValue == text
+				}
+			}
+
+			return func(paramValue string) bool {
+				for _, s := range texts {
+					if paramValue == s {
+						return true
+					}
+				}
+
+				return false
+			}
 		})
 
 	// Int or number type