On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Robbie Allen <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > If you append an extra percent sign to a URL that gets passed to > mongrel, it will return a Bad Request error. Kind of odd that > "http://localhost/%"; causes a "Bad Request" instead of a "Not Found" > error. > > Here is the error from the mongrel log: > HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): > #<Mongrel::HttpParserError: Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails.> > > I'm using Nginx in front of mongrel. I understand this is a bad URL, > but is there anyway to have mongrel ignore lone percent signs? Or > perhaps a Nginx rewrite rule that will encode extraneous percent signs?
Out of curiousity, why does mongrel's handling of this case bother you? Looks like entirely standard behaviour, see http://groklaw.net/% http://slashdot.org/% http://w3c.org/% (All produce status 400) Stephan > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Stephan Wehner -> http://stephan.sugarmotor.org -> http://www.thrackle.org -> http://www.buckmaster.ca -> http://www.trafficlife.com -> http://stephansmap.org -- blog.stephansmap.org _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
