Hello! Please, help me to configure APACHE ("*" and "|" symbols in url are the reason of "access forbidden"). Or may be I need to configure .htaccess? Thank you!
jdMorgan
11:18 pm on Mar 28, 2011 (gmt 0)
Contact your host and ask if they have a "security" setting that results in requested URLs containing these characters being rejected. On a "standard" Apache server, there would be no such problem.
According to the HTTP spec, "*" is "unreserved", and "|" is also unreserved, although tagged "unwise." See [faqs.org...]
Jim
greyshark
6:06 am on Apr 7, 2011 (gmt 0)
Thank you, but I try it on localhost with Wamp server. Hosting works fine. I've found this:
2.3. Unreserved Characters
Data characters that are allowed in a URI but do not have a reserved purpose are called unreserved. These include upper and lower case letters, decimal digits, and a limited set of punctuation marks and symbols.
Unreserved characters can be escaped without changing the semantics of the URI, but this should not be done unless the URI is being used in a context that does not allow the unescaped character to appear.
There for, I would recommend a similar change to Apache 2.0.x's proxy_util.c in keeping with Apache 2.2.x's revision 571436.
Specifically, line 137, which reads:
allowed = "$-_.+!*'(),;:@&=";
should read:
allowed = "~$-_.+!*'(),;:@&=";
But how to configure Apache on localhost to "reserve" these characters?
