~ as separator in urls

["martin.dilger" <ma...@googlemail.com>]

Hi, 

since https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-4061, we use "~" as
url-separator, this leads to enormous problems and prevents us from
upgrading from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1.

We have an apache which has mod_security enabled, and all Ajax-Requests are
blocked, the same could happen if an apache is active which has mod_userdir
active (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_userdir.html).

I would like to start a discussion, whether this is really a good idea to
use ~ as a separator.
In my mind, it is not since ~ has its own semantics and should not be used
as a separator.

What is your opinion?

Regards 

Martin

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Re: ~ as separator in urls

["martin.dilger" <ma...@googlemail.com>]

Hi Martin,

thanks for your reply.
Well, could be, I´m not sure, what all these apache modules do, 
our problem is, that mod_security in apache denies all request with '~' in
the URL, what we get is 404, which per Default looks like the Application
would not respond on Button clicks, since no failure-handler is active.

I know, that '~' is generally allowed in uris, but I wanted to discuss
whether this is really a good idea.
I wonder, whether we are the only ones with this problem?

Regards

Martin

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Re: ~ as separator in urls

[Martin Grigorov <mg...@apache.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM, martin.dilger
<ma...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-4061, we use "~" as
> url-separator, this leads to enormous problems and prevents us from
> upgrading from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1.
>
> We have an apache which has mod_security enabled, and all Ajax-Requests are
> blocked, the same could happen if an apache is active which has mod_userdir
> active (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_userdir.html).

~ is allowed in the url path by http specs
do these Apache modules fail without letting the next module process the url ?

for example I'd expect from mod_userdir to check for existence of a
user with this name and if there is no such then let the request/url
be processed by the next Apache module.

>
> I would like to start a discussion, whether this is really a good idea to
> use ~ as a separator.
> In my mind, it is not since ~ has its own semantics and should not be used
> as a separator.
>
> What is your opinion?
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
>
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