Re: same URL, different encoding

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> http://www.cistron.nl/~miquels/
> http://www.cistron.nl/%7emiquels/
> http://www.cistron.nl/%7Emiquels/
>
> Should squid realize that these are the same URLs and cache them only
> once, or should squid treat them as 3 different URLs ? I think the
> latter is what it does now.

To HTTP these are three equivalent URLs (RFC 2616 section 3.2.3), and
Squid should probably threat them as one. Not sure how to do so in a
safe manner thought as there may be uncompliant servers which do not.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker