Problem with filename encoding

Nilshar nilshar at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 08:41:35 UTC 2012


On 13 November 2012 09:38, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2012, at 12:32 , Nilshar wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> I got an issue with a filename containing "strange" characters.
> It seems that nginx is not able to url_decode correctly, and then get the
> right file.
>
> Yes, the filename is ugly : "Capture d’écran 2010-09-25 à 08.30.07.png"
> but apache is able to read it, and nginx is not :
>
> nginx strace :
> open("/<path>/images/Capture%20d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran%202010-09-25%20%C3%A0%2008.30.07.png",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> apache strace :
> open("/<path>/images/Capture d\342\200\231\303\251cran 2010-09-25 \303\240
> 08.30.07.png", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 100
>
> So it seems that nginx is using the url_encoded version of the filename,
> while apache do it's own thing on it.
>
> On both apache and nginx, the access log says : "GET
> /images/Capture%20d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran%202010-09-25%20%C3%A0%2008.30.07.png"
>
> both server have the same locales settings, and I tried different charset
> configuration into nginx, but no luck..
>
> Any idea how I can fix that without changing the filename (sadly, it's not
> possible :/) ?
>
>
> The most probably there is a rewrite in configuration which changes URI to
> $request_uri.
> nginx escapes URI if no one interferes.
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://nginx.com/support.html
>
>
Yes indeed, there is a rewrite !
got a tip on how to fix that ?
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