[Catalyst] Chained, slashes, and escaping

[Jim Spath]

Unfortunately I'm using lighttpd.

Carl Johnstone wrote:
>>> When I access the following URI:
>>>
>>> /tag/sl%2Fashes
>>>
>>> $tag gets set to sl instead of sl/ashes.
>>
>> Apparently back in the early days of the web, a URL like that caused 
>> problems
> 
> I ran into this a couple of weeks ago. As far as I could the development 
> myapp_server actually deals with everything correctly.
> 
> In Apache:
> 
> You can now allow encoded slashes in Apache > 2.0.46 with:
> 
>  AllowEncodedSlashes On
> 
> 
> If you're using mod_perl though, when Catalyst fetches the URI from 
> apache it requests the parsed vesion so for your example would get back 
> /tag/sl/ashes
> 
> You can customise Catalyst::Engine::Apache to use unparsed_uri and split 
> off the query string - which seems to work OK for my simple case, but I 
> didn't test any further.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/catalyst-dev/2007-February/000578.html
> 
> Carl