Synopsis: multiple slashes before a ~user path are incorrectly handled State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed State-Changed-By: coar State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 7 14:20:05 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: The conclusion to which we've come is that the URLs are not automatically equivalent, and therefore the base code cannot automatically gobble initial slashes like this. It's done when the target resource is a file, but only then. It could only be done as an external redirect. So this won't be going into Apache.
However, you can accomplish the same end using the patch I supplied earlier. Even better, you can use mod_rewrite to do it in a supported way that doesn't require you to alter the source. Try adding the following lines to your configuration: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond ^//+~.* RewriteRule ^//+(~.*) /$1 [R] This will cause mod_rewrite to elide the extra slashes and redirect the request to the /~user URL on the target host. You'll need to rebuild Apache with mod_rewrite included, of course, if it isn't already part of your Configuration. Thank you for using Apache, and posing such an interesting problem! #ken :-)} Severity-Changed-From-To: serious-non-critical Severity-Changed-By: coar Severity-Changed-When: Mon Jul 7 14:20:05 PDT 1997 Responsible-Changed-From-To: coar-apache Responsible-Changed-By: coar Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 7 14:20:05 PDT 1997 Responsible-Changed-Why: Putting back into the general pool. %0
