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BugRat Report #723 - Escaped URL's are not recognized by Tomcat

Report #723 Details

Project: Tomcat
Category: Bug Report
SubCategory: New Bug Report
Class: swbug
State: received
Priority: high
Severity: critical
Confidence: public
Environment: 
   Release: 3.2
   JVM Release: Java 2 SDK 1.3
   Operating System: NT 4
   OS Release: service pack 5
   Platform: Windows NT

Synopsis: 
Escaped URL's are not recognized by Tomcat

Description:
Spaces in URL's and URI's should use an escaped encoding. 
See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

For example, "%20" is the escaped encoding for the US-ASCII space character.

When a URL is escaped correcty, It is recognized by MS IIS server. But Tomcat is unable 
to load the page.


Example:

http://localhost/uniface/copy%20of%20grapha.gif

Loaded by IIS but 

The url

http://localhost:8080/uniface/copy%20of%20grapha.gif

Gives an error with Tomcat.