Or use [B], while being aware of the drawbacks. On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 2:38 PM Fossies Administrator < jens.schleuse...@fossies.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Eric Covener wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 12:14 PM <giova...@paclan.it> wrote: > >> > >> On 3/9/23 05:30, Eric Covener wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:02 PM BUSH Steve <steven.b...@3ds.com > <mailto:steven.b...@3ds.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Correction!____ > >>> > >>> I used our test template for the rule when I e-mailed just now, > but once it is converted to the apache httpd.conf format, the actual rule > appears in the httpd.conf as:____ > >>> > >>> RewriteRule ^/zoology/animals/reset/(\d+)$ "/auth/launchjob?Number > of Records=$1&__poolid=animal-magic" [B,PT,L,QSA] > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks for the report. Time will tell, but I think this is a very > fringe case. The space isn't a backreference (where `B` would have fixed > it) and a literal with a space in the substitution has to be quite rare > (famous last words) > >> > >> I wonder how many websites might have a snippet similar to: > >> > >> RewriteRule ^/search/(.*)$ /search.php?term=$1 [PT,L,QSA] > > > > I do worry about this style a lot more, especially with how much of a > > pain [B] has been for me in the past. > > I think we can wait and see and only look for more problematic > > characters in the mod_rewrite.c change. > > I use a bit historically a rule principally like > > RewriteRule file_name_pattern cgi_app?$1/$2 [T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L] > > With httpd-2.4.56 now all requests using file names containing a space are > blocked (403 Forbidden) with the according error log entry > > AH10410: Rewritten query string contains control characters or spaces > > The called CGI application tries to handle "bad" characters itself so from > my egoistic point of view at least spaces should be allowed here (may be > by an extra directive). > > In my case, the only but unsatisfactory workaround I have found so far > would be to replace the affected spaces with %2520. > > Jens
