spaces in URI

[Matthieu Tourne]

Hi,

I was in a similar situation trying to reverse proxy to a site that
has single percent signs in the url, which aren't part of a url
encoding.
I did a quick patch to allow that, maybe this can help you.

Matthieu.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, cgarver <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> Reposting to fix the grammar errors!
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I have tried both nginx 0.8.46 and 0.8.52 to reverse proxy a URI that
> contains a whitespace, but I'm having no luck. Any URI without a space
> loads just fine, but one that contains a white space results in a "Bad
> Request - HTTP Error 400. The request is badly formed."
>
> I had verified that the patch referenced above was in the source of
> 0.8.46. [The %20 substitution was missing from the proxy module so I
> added it, but adding that substitution didn't help.]
>
> Are any of you folks able to reverse proxy a white space URI like
> "http://forum.nginx.org/siteX/storage/Nice Images/test-image.jpg" That's
> not a valid URI. I just wanted to give an example that shows the type of
> white space that is in my URI.
>
> thanks,
> Chris
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,97031,134985#msg-134985
>
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