Path components interpretation by nginx.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:16:29PM +0100, António P. P. Almeida wrote:

> Hello Maxim,
> 
> Thank you. In fact since I never saw this type of URI before on an API I
> thought that
> trying to use the path segment parameters as a query string argument was
> borderline
> RFC compliant.
> 
> The original API I was referring to uses the parameter as an argument since
> they pass a session token
> as a parameter:
> 
> /api;jsessionid=somehash?t=1&q=2
> 
> obviously they have some issues with their API well beyond merely being non
> RFC 3986
> compliant :)

I don't think that passing session id as a path segment parameter 
is wrong per se.  One can think of it as ""api" path segment, 
version for a session specified", and it should work as long as 
it's properly handled by the server which implements the API.  But 
it may be non-trivial to work with such URIs in various software, 
including nginx, as path segment parameters support is usually 
quite limited.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/