Re: 404 on message-ID with slashes

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 4:35 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-Jan-15, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:25 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> > >
> > > Trying to load the last message in https://commitfest.postgresql.org/31/2858/ I
> > > ran into an unexpected 404 which, it seems, is due to a message-id with
> > > slashes: X//bJ6HKQJWx1wxA(at)paquier(dot)xyz
> > >
> > > Is this a known problem?
> >
> > Alvaro mentioned it yesterday, but that's the first I've heard of it
> > (and AFAIK with the exact same message-id). A quick look showed it
> > wasn't dead obvious what the problem was, but I haven't had time to
> > dig into it anymore. Alvaro disappeared out of the discussion, so I'm
> > not sure if he's had time to look anythign more beyond that either.
>
> Apologies for disappearing.
>
> I did try to access the message by url-encoding the / character, but
> that shows the same behavior.

Some more digging shows the problem does not appear to be the /, but the //.

The weird thing is that it works fine in my local dev. Something very
fishy is afoot here :)

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