On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Michael Schuerig <mich...@schuerig.de> wrote: > > I have a resource whose public ID is a URL. The resulting URLs look like > this > > http://my-app.com/things/http%3A%2F%2Fexample%2Ecom/foo.png > > I make sure manually, that "." in URLs are encoded as "%2E". The route > looks like this > > get 'things/:url' => 'things#show' > > This works just fine with Mongrel, but it does not work with Apache and > Passenger. The request doesn't even get through to my app, I only get a > 404 response and a corresponding entry in > > /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log > > There is nothing in the app's log. The problem appears to be caused by > the "/" in the :url parameter, even though they are encoded as "%2F". > > I'd prefer if I didn't have to read through all the ActionPack and Rack > routing code to understand what's happening and find a remedy. It must > be possible to do this cleanly.
Tricky issue. To fix, enable AllowEncodedSlashes in Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
