404 error when %20 is in file name

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I’m running the latest version of nginx. When I try to serve a file with
a “%20” in the name (example funny%20picture.jpg) I get a 404 error. The
filename itself has the “%20” in it, not a space. But nginx refuses to
serve the file. Any ideas on a configuration change I can make so that
this works?

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:20:17AM -0500, jstalin wrote:

I’m running the latest version of nginx. When I try to serve a file with
a “%20” in the name (example funny%20picture.jpg) I get a 404 error. The
filename itself has the “%20” in it, not a space. But nginx refuses to
serve the file. Any ideas on a configuration change I can make so that
this works?

If you want to get “funny%20picture.jpg”, you should encode “%” in
request
as “%25”: “funny%2520picture.jpg”.

–
Igor S.