Unable browse or see the history of any files with a '+' in the file path (in SVN external repo). Other characters could result in the same issue, but I've only noticed it with at '+'.
Diffs display correctly when viewing a commit containing files with a '+' in the path, but under the "Changes" section when viewing a commit, the history for said files show as blank, and both "browse" and "modified" links result in "path does not exist" and 404 errors respectively.
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | epriestley | T11553 Add various "make an HTTP call" setup checks, and run them in parallel | ||
| Resolved | ericgriffin | T5067 Can't browse or see history of any files with a '+' in the file path. |
This is probably the webserver interpreting + as (that is, a space) before we get to see the request.
I think this is usually caused by using Apache with a rewrite rule like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*) /rewrite.php?__path__=$1 [L,QSA]
Instead, the rule should include B, like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*) /rewrite.php?__path__=$1 [B,L,QSA]
Is it possible that (or some similar rewrite configuration issue) is what's causing the problem? Which webserver are you using?
Cool. We should try to detect this and warn you about it, but it's a bit tricky since we have to make a request to ourselves and then make sure that we can't cause an infinite loop no matter how misconfigured things are. There are some other tasks filed somewhere else that approximately cover this already, though. I'll make a note on T2226. Let us know if you run into anything else.