Re: Trouble with Unicode in URLs

[Gaius <james.a.rosen@gmail.com>]

I just found this older thread by you. If only we could just switch
computers!

http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel/browse_thread/thread/d16abdccdb9026e8

On Jan 15, 12:13 pm, Gaius <james.a.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I don't have a problem. My point is that I had to build a
> middleware to solve the problem. To me, that indicates that some part
> of Rack (either core or contrib) might want this unencoding so others
> don't have the same problem.  Of course, if it's really an httpd
> problem, I'd rather solve it there.
>
> I haven't done anything to httpd.conf other than add Passenger, as
> evidenced by the following diff:
>
> $ diff /etc/apache2/httpd.conf{,.original}
> 486d485
> < SSLSessionCache dbm:/var/log/apache2/ssl_gcache_data
> 490,507d488
> <
> < LoadModule passenger_module /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/
> passenger-2.2.4/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
> < <IfModule passenger_module>
> < PassengerRoot /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4
> < PassengerRuby /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/
> usr/bin/ruby
> < </IfModule>
> <
> <
> < # Added by the Passenger preference pane
> < # Make sure to include the Passenger configuration (the LoadModule,
> < # PassengerRoot, and PassengerRuby directives) before this section.
> < <IfModule passenger_module>
> <   NameVirtualHost *:80
> <   <VirtualHost *:80>
> <     ServerName _default_
> <   </VirtualHost>
> <   Include /private/etc/apache2/passenger_pane_vhosts/*.conf
> < </IfModule>
> \ No newline at end of file
>
> On Jan 15, 12:03 pm, Iñaki Baz Castillo <i...@aliax.net> wrote:
>
> > El Viernes, 15 de Enero de 2010, Gaius escribió:
>
> > > I agree with your analysis of _why_ the server is getting the hex-
> > > escaped version. (That's why I used CGI.unescape to fix the problem.)
>
> > Then what is the problem now? :)
>
> > > I'm also quite sure that Apache isn't unescaping before passing the
> > > request on to Rack.
>
> > > My setup:
>
> > > $ apachectl -v
> > > Server version: Apache/2.2.13 (Unix)
> > > Server built:   Sep 28 2009 16:04:37
>
> > > $ gem list passenger
> > > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> > > passenger (2.2.4)
>
> > Really interesting. Have you configured something in Apache2?
> > I have passenger 2.2.4 and apache2:
>
> >   $ apache2ctl -v
> >   Server version: Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu)
> >   Server built:   Nov 13 2009 22:06:57
>
> > In my case URL is unescaped by Apache2 ¿?
>
> > --
> > Iñaki Baz Castillo <i...@aliax.net>
>
>