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I use a basic rewriting rule to map articles names to their database id.
If I click on a url encoded link (ex.: fran%E7ais.htm), I get a 403 error. If I type the url in the address bar without encoding the special character, the rewriting work and the url in the address bar is changed to "fran%C3%A7ais.htm" which is url encoded UTF-8.
So I suppose Apache tries to process the url as UTF-8. Can someone explain me why?
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> I get a 403 error.
A 403? That is odd. I'd understand a 404, or even a 500, but 403 is a strange response.
The reason Apache is encoding the URL further is that "%" itself is an excluded character [faqs.org].
Jim
which states:
We recommend that user agents adopt the following convention for handling non-ASCII characters in such cases:
1. Represent each character in UTF-8 (see [RFC2279]) as one or more bytes.
2. Escape these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the byte value).
