When AllowEncodedSlashes is Off (the default setting), URLs containing %2f are replied with a 404 error without calling the CGI. To (maybe) prevent others debugging this issue add a hint with the solution. --- Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod index 71f8a6f5f696..369813d09b91 100644 --- a/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod +++ b/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ CGI with Perl is slow due to code loading overhead and web servers lack the scheduling fairness of L<public-inbox-httpd(1)> for handling git clones and streaming large mbox downloads. +=head1 COMPATIBILITY NOTE + +When using the CGI with Apache, make sure to set AllowEncodedSlashes to On, as +public-inbox makes heavy use of encoded slashes. + =head1 CONTACT Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to L<mailto:[email protected]> -- 2.39.1
