Need to allow encoded slashes on Apache

Question

I\'m currently trying to place a URL within a URL. For example:

http://example.com/url/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.url2.com

I\'m aware that I have to

Answer 1

I kept coming across this post for another issue. Let me just explain real quick.

I had the same style URL and was also trying to proxy it.

Example: Proxy requests from /example/ to another server.

/example/http:%2F%2Fwww.someurl.com/

Issue 1: Apache believes that's an invalid url

Solution: AllowEncodedSlashes On in httpd.conf

Issue 2: Apache decodes the encoded slashes

Solution: AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode in httpd.conf (Requires Apache 2.3.12+)

Issue 3: mod_proxy attempts to re-encode (double encode) the URL changing %2F to %252F (eg. /example/http:%252F%252Fwww.someurl.com/)

Solution: In httpd.conf use the ProxyPass keyword nocanon to pass the raw URL thru the proxy.

ProxyPass http://anotherserver:8080/example/ nocanon

httpd.conf file:

AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode


  ProxyPass http://anotherserver:8080/example/ nocanon

Reference:

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
• http://www.silverdisc.co.uk/blog/2009/02/28/url-canonicalisation-and-normalisation
• Cannot match %2F in mod_rewrite