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

[Dilyan Palauzov]

Hello,

The "?" is obviously urlencoded to %3f in 1.2.0, but it wasn't in 1.0.15 .

Greetings
   Dilyan Palauzov

----- Message from Ashish S <ashishs.dev at gmail.com> ---------
     Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 08:40:13 -0700
     From: Ashish S <ashishs.dev at gmail.com>
Reply-To: nginx at nginx.org
  Subject: Re: question mark transformed to %3f on internal redirects  
with Nginx 1.2.0
       To: nginx at nginx.org


> 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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