spaces in URI

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:06:36PM -0400, cgarver wrote:

> Glad to do so!
> 
> from nginx.conf
>     upstream backendcms  {
>         server 172.26.161.230;
>     }
> 
> from my location specific conf
> location ~* ^/us(.*)? {
>     proxy_set_header Host xxx.xxx.xxx;
>     proxy_pass       http://backendcms$1;
>     subs_filter     .....
> }
> 
> It truly is the white-space causing the issue because I copied the
> "Member Images" folder to "Member-Images".  Trying the URI with the
> hypen works and with the %20 does not.

The 400 error is sent by backend because backend does not support unencoded
spaces in URI. nginx can espace it, if you will use

location ^~ /us {
    proxy_pass       http://backendcms/;
    proxy_set_header Host xxx.xxx.xxx;
    subs_filter     .....
}


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