Re: [squid-users] URL encoded data

See the uri_whitespace directive.

Regards
Henrik Nordström

On Monday 28 January 2002 10.37, Andrei B. wrote:
> I am not sure if this is squid related, or Netscape related, but I
> tend to think it is squid:
>
> SQUID 2.3 STABLE4.
> Netscape 4.75 or 3.0 as client.
>
> Here's the situation :
>
> URL that works :
>
> http://www.mysite.com/cgi/myscript?value='somevalue%20somevalue'&va
>lue2=somevalue
>
> This works always, as it is a URL encoded string, with blank
> converted to %20.
> However :
> http://www.mysite.com/cgi/myscript?value='somevalue
> somevalue'&value2=somevalue
>
> Notice the blank.
> If NO proxy is configured, Netscape will consider the URL as
> http://www.mysite.com/cgi/myscript?value='somevalue
> which is wrong for the user wanting to retrieve the data, but
> correct with respect to URL handling, the blank was not encoded as
> required.
>
> If squid is the proxy used, the web server will get the following
> request :
> http://www.mysite.com/cgi/myscript?value='somevaluesomevalue'&value
>2=somevalue
>
> Notice the blank has been removed.
> Since all parameters are present, I tend to think Netscape sent it
> the URL as it found it in the link definition (or location bar)
> directly to the proxy, no modifications. Then squid, when
> forwarding the URL, cut out the space character, thus joining the
> two words.
> Because without proxy Netscape sends only a partial URL, I tend to
> think it would have sent a partial URL to the proxy, too.
>
> access.log for squid shows only the path, not the parameters, so I
> don't know for sure.
>
> Please tell me, is squid skipping that space character? If so, can
> someone write a patch, please, for 2.3STABLE4 to correct URL
> encoding when necessary?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
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