Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#882 accepted defect

Unencoded Location: header when redirecting

Reported by: stackoverflow.com/users/32168/jim-nelson Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: nginx-core Version: 1.4.x
Keywords: Cc:
uname -a:
nginx -V: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

Description

As posted on the mailing list (http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049650.html):

We’re seeing the following behavior in nginx 1.4.6:

  • nginx returns “301 Moved Permanently” with the Location: URL unencoded and a trailing slash added:
Location: http://example.org/When Harry Met Sally/
  • Some software (i.e. PHP) will automatically follow the redirect, but because it expects an encoded Location: header, it sends exactly what was returned from the server. (Note that curl, wget, and others will fixup unencoded Location: headers, but that’s not what HTTP spec requires.)

In other words, this is the transaction chain:

C: GET http://example.org/When%20Harry%20Met%20Sally HTTP/1.1

S: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
S: Location: http://example.org/When Harry Met Sally/

C: GET http://example.org/When Harry Met Sally/ HTTP/1.1

S: 400 Bad Request

I believe the 301 originates from within the nginx code itself (ngx_http_static_module.c:147-193? in trunk) and not from our rewrite rules. As I read the HTTP spec, Location: must be encoded.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Maxim Dounin, 9 years ago

Status: newaccepted
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