urlencoded Forward slash is breaking URL

Apache denies all URLs with %2F in the path part, for security reasons: scripts can’t normally (ie. without rewriting) tell the difference between %2F and / due to the PATH_INFO environment variable being automatically URL-decoded (which is stupid, but a long-standing part of the CGI specification so there’s nothing can be done about it). You … Read more

How do I configure IIS for URL Rewriting an AngularJS application in HTML5 mode?

I write out a rule in web.config after $locationProvider.html5Mode(true) is set in app.js. Hope, helps someone out. <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”AngularJS Routes” stopProcessing=”true”> <match url=”.*” /> <conditions logicalGrouping=”MatchAll”> <add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsFile” negate=”true” /> <add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsDirectory” negate=”true” /> <add input=”{REQUEST_URI}” pattern=”^/(api)” negate=”true” /> </conditions> <action type=”Rewrite” url=”https://stackoverflow.com/” /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> </system.webServer> In my … Read more