[users@httpd] URL escape/unescape problems with Apache (proxy)

[Chris Solomon <cs...@valueclick.com>]

I am having some trouble with Apache understanding an escaped url.  

This is a proxy server that will be forwarding requests on to a backend apache running mod_perl.  The proxy is:

Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

Here is the problem summary:

When given a request that looks like:

http://server.com/someurl?animal=horse&day=monday&link=http://www.foobar.com/tues/sep/2004

and escape it (except for the 2nd url '/' characters):

http://server.com/someurl%3Fanimal%3Dhorse%3Bday%3Dmonday%3Blink%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.foobar.com/tues/sep/2004

When the escaped url is requested, you get a 404 and the request never reaches the backend apache.  When logging is enabled, I get this in the proxy access log:

server.com 192.168.1.86 - - [/someurl?animal=horse;day=monday;link=http://www.foobar.com/tues/sep/2004] [21/Sep/2004:14:43:50 -0700] "GET /someurl%3Fanimal%3Dhorse%3Bday%3Dmonday%3Blink%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.foobar.com%2Ftues%2Fsep%2F2004 HTTP/1.1" [] 404 369 "-" "libwww-perl/5.75"

(my log format is: LogFormat "%v %h %l %u [%U] %t \"%r\" [%q] %>s %b \"%{'{Referer}'}i\" \"%{'{User-Agent}'}i\"")

But, if I just don't escape the '://' characters in the 'link' param:

http://server.com/someurl%3Fanimal%3Dhorse%3Bday%3Dmonday%3Blink%3Dhttp://www.foobar.com/tues/sep/2004

Then the proxy reads (and unescapes) the url correctly and everything works great.  Unfortunately this isn't a viable solution.

As you can see from the entry in the proxy access log, the url -seems- to be getting decoded properly, but that may just be happening after the request phase, and may be happening in the log phase, I don't know.

any ideas on why the escaped "://" is causing a problem?

thanks,

Chris

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Re: [users@httpd] URL escape/unescape problems with Apache (proxy)

[Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Chris Solomon wrote:

> I am having some trouble with Apache understanding an escaped url.

Do you mean http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15207 ?

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Nick Kew

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