Need to allow encoded slashes on Apache

Question

I\'m currently trying to place a URL within a URL. For example:

http://example.com/url/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.url2.com

I\'m aware that I have to

Answer 1

After a fair bit of testing, and looking at the bug in Apache, I've concluded that despite offered solutions in different forums, this is an unresolved issue in Apache. See the bug: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35256

The workaround that works for me is to refactor the URI so that the item that can contain the escaped slashes is in the query section of the URI, instead of the path. My tests show that when they are there, they don't get filtered out by Apache, no matter the AllowEncodedSlashes and AcceptPathInfo settings.

So: http://test.com/url?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.url2.com

or: http://test.com/url?theURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.url2.com

instead of: http://test.com/url/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.url2.com

This means an architecture change for our project, but it seems unavoidable. Hope you found a solution.