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

I wasted a great many hours on this problem too. I'm a bit late to the party, but it seems there's a solution now.

As per this thread, there is (was) a bug in Apache such that if you have AllowEncodedSlashes On, it prevents the 404, but it mistakenly decodes the slashes, which is incorrect according to the RFC.

This comment offers a solution, namely to use:

AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode