Still having HTTP 400 - nginx bad request error

Wed Aug 13 23:24:28 MSD 2008

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:14:57PM -0700, mike wrote:

> On 8/13/08, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> 
> > nginx accepts any character in URL except space. I do not think that
> > unescaped spaces are common: I have just seen www.rambler.ru's last
> > 400,000 requests. There are 50 line with 400 errors and no one with space.
> >
> > Probably these spaces are bugs in mobile phones.
> >
> > Apache 1.3 returns 400 for such URLs too, while modern Apache2 accepts them.
> 
> okay, so anyone with a buggy mobile phone loading an nginx site is
> just out of luck? instead of probably a minor check for a " " in the
> url and encoding it for them?

I will look.

BTW, the buggy mobile phone owners are unhappy with google too:

-----------
>nc www.google.com 80 | head -10
GET /search?q=test test HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:23:35 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: GFE/1.3
Connection: Close
Content-Length: 1344

<html><head>

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
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Igor Sysoev
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