On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:18 AM, sathya sai <sathyasai.eshwar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Apache folks, > > When I enter http://x.x.x.x/docs/あいうえお.pdf (x.x.x.x a japanese system) from > my firefox browser, I could see that my browser translates the URI resource > portion to UTF-8 encoded formated > (%E3%81%82%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E3%81%88%E3%81%8A.pdf) which is as expected. > > But although the file is avialable on the specified path, my apache server > fails with 404 error. In further analysing the problem, I could see that the > problem could be because apache internally translates/maps URI あいうえお.pdf to > 49/%82%a0%82%a2%82%a4%82%a6%82%a8.pdf , which is in shift_JIS format instead > & thus failing when the incoming request is UTF-8 encoded resource path. And > also, when I enter > http://x.x.x.x/docs/49/%82%a0%82%a2%82%a4%82%a6%82%a8.pdf from my browser I > could see that the document is getting displayed as expecte d. What's the evidence that the request contained the UTF-8 sequence? That seems like the suspicious part, given what Apache tried to serve. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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