[users@httpd] RE: ReddirectMatch and spaces

["Houser, Rick" <ri...@jackson.com>]

Did you capture an example of what IE actually requests via the access logs?  Browsers should be encoding those as either %20 or +.  I'm guessing you only addressed one of the cases and IE uses the other.


Rick Houser
Web Administration

From: Darryl Philip Baker [mailto:darryl.baker@northwestern.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 10:33
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: [users@httpd] ReddirectMatch and spaces

I have been requested to redirect a set of URLs that contain spaces to alternate URLs. I know that URLs with spaces are a "really bad idea (tm)" but the person who sent these out didn't think of asking me first.  I have come up with patterns that work using RewriteRule but only for Chrome and Firefox. IE returns a 404 in some cases. That is likely a bug in IE and how it parses and passes spaces on but I can't ignore IE and declare victory. I thought it might be better if I use RedirectMatch instead of a RewriteRule but I cannot come up with a pattern that matches a space. For most of the things I have tried I get back an error about the number of arguments.

Darryl Baker
Sr. System Administrator
Distributed Application Platform Services (DAPS)
Project Management Office and Enabling Technologies (PMOET)
Northwestern | Information Technology (Formerly NUIT)
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