Search the archives, I seem to remember seeing a discussion about something like this fairly recently. Robert Jaeschke wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > Jeff Ambrosino schrieb: >> We have a mod_proxy (2.0.54) front-end proxying to a back-end MS IIS >> server. One type of URL that we use is causing problems because >> mod_proxy is decoding an encoded comma in the URL as it proxies the >> request to the back-end (we determined this with a packet sniffer): >> >> between browser and mod_proxy: >> >> http://www.company.com/item-01-A1263%7E23334%2Cz831%7E238.asp >> >> between mod_proxy and back-end server: >> >> http://www.company.com/item-01-A1263%7E23334,z831%7E238.asp >> >> As you can see, mod_proxy is decoding ONLY the comma (%2C), which is >> causing our back-end server to return a 404. Is there a workaround >> for this in Apache? I'm familiar with AllowEncodedSlashes (which we >> also have set On), but it seems like there should be an >> AllowEncodedCommas. > > > I posted something regarding this issue on 31.08.2006 with the subject > "mod_proxy and unwanted decoding of URLs (related to bug 15207)" but I > got no feedback. This behaviour breaks a lot of things and it's not > only the problem with commas but also with other chars - see my post. > > > > Best regards, > Robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx