#196 closed defect (fixed)
Inconsistent behavior on uri's with unencoded spaces followed by H
| Reported by: | Matt Kolve | Owned by: | somebody |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | nginx-core | Version: | 1.3.x |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| uname -a: | Darwin mango 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 MacBookPro8,1 Darwin | ||
| nginx -V: |
nginx version: nginx/1.3.4
built by gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3) TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --prefix=/opt/local --with-cc-opt='-I/opt/local/include -O2' --with-ld-opt=-L/opt/local/lib --conf-path=/opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/opt/local/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/opt/local/var/run/nginx/nginx.pid --lock-path=/opt/local/var/run/nginx/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/opt/local/var/run/nginx/client_body_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/opt/local/var/run/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/opt/local/var/run/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/opt/local/var/run/nginx/uwsgi_temp --with-ipv6 --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-google_perftools_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-debug |
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Description
When requesting files with unencoded spaces, nginx will typically respond with the file requested. But if the filename has a space followed by a capital H, nginx responds with a 400 error.
[foo@bar Downloads]$ nc -vv 127.0.0.1 8000 Ncat: Version 6.01 ( http://nmap.org/ncat ) Ncat: Connected to 127.0.0.1:8000. GET /t h HTTP/1.1 Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.3.4 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:22:30 GMT Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Length: 4 Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:30:35 GMT Connection: keep-alive ETag: "5027f64b-4" Accept-Ranges: bytes bar [foo@bar Downloads]$ nc -vv 127.0.0.1 8000 Ncat: Version 6.01 ( http://nmap.org/ncat ) Ncat: Connected to 127.0.0.1:8000. GET /a H HTTP/1.1 <html> <head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx/1.3.4</center> </body> </html> Ncat: 18 bytes sent, 172 bytes received in 7.29 seconds. [foo@bar Downloads]$ nc -vv 127.0.0.1 8000 Ncat: Version 6.01 ( http://nmap.org/ncat ) Ncat: Connected to 127.0.0.1:8000. GET /a%20H HTTP/1.1 Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.3.4 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:23:32 GMT Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Length: 4 Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:34:44 GMT Connection: keep-alive ETag: "5027f744-4" Accept-Ranges: bytes bar
Change History (15)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
follow-up: 3 comment:2 by , 12 years ago
The issue is with XBMC using nginx-dav-ext-module. It looks like nginx-dav-ext-module doesn't send back properly encoded uri's in the PROPFIND xml.
<D:href>/foo/a test</D:href>
XBMC then takes these unencoded uri's and tries to use them without encoding, which is where the error with nginx seems to have come from.
Apache's webdav sends back the href encoded properly
<D:href>/foo/a%20test</D:href>
Does nginx use 'H' as the delimiter between a uri and protocol?
Should http clients encode uri's if the uri's haven't been encoded in html or xml? I think Chrome and Firefox do this, but am not sure if the rfc specifies to do this.
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
| Status: | new → accepted |
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The issue is with XBMC using nginx-dav-ext-module. It looks like nginx-dav-ext-module doesn't send back properly encoded uri's in the PROPFIND xml.
This looks like a problem in dav-ext module (it should escape href), and probably minor problem in XBMC (as it failed to create http request properly incorrectly assuming presented uri is valid). You may want to report these problems to XBMC and dav-ext authors.
Does nginx use 'H' as the delimiter between a uri and protocol?
As per RFC it uses space as a delimiter, but backtracks to uri parsing (to please broken clients) if it doesn't see 'H' after space.
Should http clients encode uri's if the uri's haven't been encoded in html or xml? I think Chrome and Firefox do this, but am not sure if the rfc specifies to do this.
HTTP clients should not sent syntactically invalid http requests, so two valid options are: 1) escape or 2) reject link as broken.
I tend to think that proper fix in nginx would be to disallow spaces in uri by default, this should make such problems much easier to find.
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
I tend to think that proper fix in nginx would be to disallow spaces in uri by default, this should make such problems much easier to find.
Agreed.
Whatever is decided. NGINX should return a proper 400 error response with invalid requests. Not a headerless reply with an error message embedded in html.
comment:5 by , 12 years ago
| sensitive: | → 0 |
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The response is a proper HTTP/0.9 response, which is used as nginx wasn't able to find proper HTTP/1.0 (or later) request, and defaults to HTTP/0.9.
comment:9 by , 5 years ago
user@nginx01:~$ nginx -V nginx version: nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu) built with OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_perl_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_module --with-threads --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/headers-more-nginx-module --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-auth-pam --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-cache-purge --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-dav-ext-module --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-development-kit --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-echo --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/ngx-fancyindex --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-http-push --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-lua --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-upload-progress --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair --add-module=/build/nginx-U6uhdy/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module user@nginx01:~$ uname -a Linux nginx01.int.us-east-1.escm.co 4.4.0-159-generic #187-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 1 16:28:06 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Still present in nginx 1.10.3
comment:10 by , 5 years ago
| uname -a: | modified (diff) |
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For the record, this also seems to cause RTSP requests being interpreted as HTTP/0.9, leading to HTTP/0.9 responses (see this thread and my response).
comment:13 by , 3 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | accepted → closed |
Do you have a problem with some particular client?
Just for history, original change to allow space in uri was introduced to please broken clients, see http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2010-June/020878.html. Note well that the current behaviour isn't compatible well Apache one (Apache will assume anything after space is a protocol, not a part of the uri, and "GET /t h HTTP/1.0" will return "/t" file).