On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 2:10 PM Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:55 PM Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/9/23 12:16 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
> > > Still getting feedback in the PR about breakage. Any thoughts on options 
> > > here, like allowing spaces or encoding rather than failing?
> >
> > Allowing spaces is out of question for me as it creates an invalid request 
> > and opens the door to response splitting. At best we
> > could encode automatically. It is really a good question if we could not 
> > make BCTLS the default.
>
> BCTLS by default looks fine to me, it changes the behaviour for users
> that (used to) expect/handle decoded spaces in the query-string in
> their scripts, but it's blocked now anyway..

Hm, actually we don't really know where the backref is placed (either
in the uri-path or in the query-string), so escaping unconditionally
might lead to double-escaping in the uri-path. Maybe it's simpler to
remove the check and leave it to mod_proxy only..

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>
> Regards;
> Yann.

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