>Number: 1240 >Category: general >Synopsis: NCSA Compatibility-Spaces in Redirects cause error 500 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 17 01:30:00 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: Apache/1.2b9-dev IOCOM/2.0 PHP/FI-2.0b11 PyApache/2.25 >Environment: BSD/OS pentagon.io.com 2.0.1 BSDI BSD/OS 2.0.1 Kernel #2: Wed Nov 20 18:32:55 CS T 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/u/j/jher/system/generic/compile/SANDERS i386 >Description: NCSA httpd allows (requires?) that spaces in pathnames for redirets be specified with \space. This causes an error 500 in Apache, which wants paths with spaces to be surrounded by quotes. An important issue when transferring from one server to another, as any pages in that directory and below will become inaccessible. >How-To-Repeat: RedirectPermanent /wherever/help\ me.html http://blah.com/ >Fix: Add that to the NCSA compatibility issues web page%3 >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
