Mod rewrite double escapes URLs [#1396326]

Suppose you have a site: www.example.com, with a URL alias for example.com then requesting a URL like:

example.com/url-with-%25-percentage-symbol

then this get 301'd to:

www.example.com/url-with-%2525-percentage-symbol

As the percent symbol is escaped by the mod_rewrite.

The solution is to use the NE flag in the RewriteRule directive in the htaccess.

Is this the correct solution? (It works btw)

Comments

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 7 January 2012 at 06:24

This seems reasonable to me and is the intended use of NE. I've no problem with that.

I'll leave to anarcat to weigh in if he foresees any problem here

Steven Jones CreditAttribution: Steven Jones commented 7 January 2012 at 09:51

Assigned:

Unassigned

Anarcat mentioned in IRC that it looked fine.

Steven Jones CreditAttribution: Steven Jones commented 7 January 2012 at 10:00

Status:

Active

» Fixed

Fix pushed to all branches.

21 January 2012 at 10:10

Status:

Fixed

» Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

12 June 2014 at 08:41

Commit 6d0a23c on 6.x-1.x, dev-drupal-8, dev-ssl-ip-allocation-refactor, dev-1205458-move_sites_out_of_platforms, 7.x-3.x, dev-subdir-multiserver, 6.x-2.x-backports, dev-helmo-3.x by Steven Jones:
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Issue #1396326 by Steven Jones: Fixed Mod rewrite double escapes URLs.
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Commit fa17f7a on 6.x-2.x, dev-ssl-ip-allocation-refactor, dev-1205458-move_sites_out_of_platforms, 7.x-3.x, dev-subdir-multiserver, 6.x-2.x-backports, dev-helmo-3.x by Steven Jones:
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Issue #1396326 by Steven Jones: Fixed Mod rewrite double escapes URLs.
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