>Number: 4388 >Category: mod_alias >Synopsis: RedirectMatch quotes "#" >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Tue May 11 13:50:01 PDT 1999 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.4 >Environment: SunOS dagoffice 4.1.4 11 sun4m, gcc 2.6.3 >Description: Many people link to our site and forget the "#" for jumping to the appropriate entry on a page. E.g. instead of linking to /DATA/Seminars/99/#99421 they link to /DATA/Seminars/99/99421. Due to having more than one path where this happens (for every year since 1990 at least three occurences) I want and because of Redirect matches only complete paths and not parts of directory names (see beyond and RTFM to Redirect) I'm forced to use RedirectMatch instead of Redirect. So I wrote:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/DATA/Seminars/([0-9][0-9])/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]?)(\.html|/.*)?$ http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/$1/#$2 If I now request http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/99/99421 I get redirected to http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/99/%2399421 instead of http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/99/#99421 because RedirectMatch quoted the "#" and returned it as "%23". In comparision Redirect permanent /99/99 http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/99/#99 redirects http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/99/99 to http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/99/#99 as it should. Unfortunately redirect matches no path components, e.g. it matches /99/99 but not /99/99421, so I am forced to use RedirectMatch... BTW: This seems to be similar to #4379 and #3333, which both have the same problem with quoted question marks. Mainly I wrote this bug report, because I fear that, if that both bugs are fixed and only the "?" won't be quoted anymore, the same problem with quoted hashes may resist. >How-To-Repeat: http://www.dagstuhl.de:8042/DATA/Seminars/99/99421 >Fix: Don't let RedirectMatch quote hashes and question marks. AFAIK there shouldn't be any other exceptions. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
