Jeff Sapp wrote: > We offer proxy service, and some of our > customers are having trouble accessing pictures on www.myfamily.com. > It appears that their servers don't like dealing with the encoded > characters. (I'd paste a real url, but you have to have a login to their > site). As far as I can tell, both of these URLs should be legitimate and > its a bug on their side. > > www.myfamily.com/~foo.jpg works just fine > www.myfamily.com/%7Efoo.jpg does not work (returns document contains no > data) > > My questions are: > > Is encoding these characters part of the proxy's job?
No - encoding them is the browser's job. The % encoding is used to
transfer odd characters in URLs. In theory the proxy is not supposed to
do anything with these sorts of URLs, and transmit them as-is.
> Is there an easy way to turn this off?
> Is there any reason I shouldn't turn this off? (the browser sends it this way)
> Could I just add it to "allowed" characters list in proxy_util.c?
What exactly is the proxy doing to these URLs...? Can you find out what
URL is sent to the remote server when you get an URL with a % in it from
the browser?
Regards,
Graham
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