[racket] Apache redirections

On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> This is a general JFYI for people who run the racket web server via an
> apache proxy and see strange failures (if you don't do that then you
> can safely ignore this message).
> 
> (Specifically for Jay: it's probably worth a note in the "How do I use
> Apache with the Racket Web Server?"  section of "server-faq.scrbl" --
> I've done this, but it's worth a second look.)
> 
> It looks like in recent versions of apache (2.2.17) when rewrite rules
> are applied the URIs will always get escaped.  This leads to problems
> with the racket server's urls -- something like "servlets;blah" gets
> substituted as "servlets%3Bblah", which means that the ";" lost its
> original meaning as a separator.  The easy way I found around this is
> to add an `NE' ("No Escape") flag to the rule, for example, the
> rewrite rule in the example should be:
> 
>  RewriteRule ^handin/(.*)$ https://localhost:9770/handin/$1 [P,NE]
> 
> I'm mentioning this because I've seen two separate things break as a
> result (it broke planet after the upgrade, and I also needed to fix my
> class handin server's proxy rule).

Since this is on my mind: does this rewrite peculiarity also affect reverse proxying?


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