* Re: [PATCH] public-inbox.cgi(1): Mention AllowEncodedSlashes for Apache setups
2023-02-17 11:08 7% ` [PATCH] public-inbox.cgi(1): Mention AllowEncodedSlashes for Apache setups Uwe Kleine-König
@ 2023-02-17 13:15 7% ` Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2023-02-17 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Uwe Kleine-König; +Cc: meta
Thanks, pushed as 849538969a6c0ef0319291f31dc69acdec4481db
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* [PATCH] public-inbox.cgi(1): Mention AllowEncodedSlashes for Apache setups
@ 2023-02-17 11:08 7% ` Uwe Kleine-König
2023-02-17 13:15 7% ` Eric Wong
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From: Uwe Kleine-König @ 2023-02-17 11:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
When AllowEncodedSlashes is Off (the default setting), URLs containing
%2f are replied with a 404 error without calling the CGI. To (maybe)
prevent others debugging this issue add a hint with the solution.
---
Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod
index 71f8a6f5f696..369813d09b91 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ CGI with Perl is slow due to code loading overhead and web servers lack
the scheduling fairness of L<public-inbox-httpd(1)> for handling git
clones and streaming large mbox downloads.
+=head1 COMPATIBILITY NOTE
+
+When using the CGI with Apache, make sure to set AllowEncodedSlashes to On, as
+public-inbox makes heavy use of encoded slashes.
+
=head1 CONTACT
Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
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