question mark transformed to %3f on internal redirects with Nginx 1.2.0

[Ashish S]

The "?" is getting urlencoded to %3F.   I think nginx url-encodes
during internal re-directs

--Ashish



On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dilyan Palauzov
<Dilyan.Palauzov at aegee.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a rule
> server {
> ...
>  index index.php /cgi-bin/wa?INDEX;
> }
>
> /cgi-bin/wa is forwarded to a thhpd server:
>
> location /cgi-bin {
>  proxy_pass http://lists.aegee.org:8080;
>  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>  proxy_pass_request_headers on;
> }
>
> and it works with Nginx 1.1.15.
>
> After upgrading to Nginx 1.2.0 (configure arguments:
> --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --conf-path=/etc/nginx/core.conf
> --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/nginx.log --user=wwwrun --group=nogroup
> --with-ipv6 --without-poll_module --without-select_module --with-file-aio
> --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module
> --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_sub_module
> --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module
> --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module
> --with-http_degradation_module --with-http_stub_status_module
> --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx --with-pcre --with-pcre-jit --prefix=/usr
> --with-cc-opt='-O3 -march=native -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,-O1 -flto
> -Wl,-z,relro' --with-ld-opt='-L/usr/lib64 -L/lib64'
> --without-http_ssi_module --without-http_uwsgi_module
> --without-http_scgi_module --without-http_upstream_ip_hash_module
> --without-http_split_clients_module --without-http_empty_gif_module) and
> invoking the site, that redirects internally to /cgi-bin/wa?INDEX, I get an
> error message from thttpd:
>
> 404 Not Found
> The requested URL '/cgi-bin/wa%3fINDEX' was not found on this server.
>
> But, if I request directly /cgi-bin/wa?INDEX in the browser, everything
> works perfect.
>
> I think there is something in Nginx 1.2.0, that rewrites the question mark
> in %3f for internal redirects, that was not done in 1.0.15 and I would like
> to have the old behaviour back (or hints, how to solve the
> "cgi-bin/wa%3fINDEX not found" problem .)
>
> Kind regards
>  Dilian
>
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