Hi there,
Yesterday i was stucked on an issue with mod_rewrite when i realized the
problem actually was : how does apache deals with url-encoded forward
slashes ( "/" => "%2F" ) in URIs.
If a such slash character is in the query string, there's no problem,
but if it's on the "path part" of the URI, what does it mean?
For example :
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2%2Ffaq/
Does it look for a directory named "2.2/faq" (with the slash making part
of the name) ?
Or is it simply forbidden?
In my case, i had to redirect the following
/folder/anything
to
/cgi-bin/abc.cgi?anything
I first thought that "anything" should be fully escaped to make a single
data block, so "any/thing" had to be "any%2Fthing"
But apache didn't execute my rewrite rule, it didn't even looked at my
.htaccess. If i drop the .htaccess and put the equivalent configuration
in a <Directory> directive into the main conf, same thing.
Seems that when an escaped slash in the "path part" of URI, it means
"error, don't go further".
Note that we're using apache 1.3.3x
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