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March 14, 2022

How to handle 301 redirects for french accented characters or special characters like single quote

  • March 14, 2022
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Hi All,

I recently observed an issue with the dispatcher rewrite rules wherein the rules put in and having french accented characters / special character like single quote in the source url seems to be failing. It goes to a 404.

having these in the destination url works though.

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Pallavi_Shukla_
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
March 15, 2022

To avoid encoding the special characters add the NE flag to the rewrite rules

 

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/facing-issues-with-special-characters-in-url-in-dispatcher/td-p/394662#old_hash=&from_ims=true%3Fclient_id=DXLithiumProd&api=authorize&scope=openid,AdobeID,additional_info.screen_name,additional_info.account_type,account_cluster.read,additional_info.ownerOrg,additional_info.company%23access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dSI6Imltc19uYTEta2V5LWF0LTEuY2VyIiwia2lkIjoiaW1zX25hMS1rZXktYXQtMSIsIml0dCI6ImF0In0.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.M8PdTz0nTi9U6OLG_EI0iIjv0Zb1NezHSxUS56ZT9Qk5LihBvdNTpJLLq30WgEOcuu0rmwd-HSyfB-UGNQLRjBub3Fc6KfRc6BrSEMQ2X-EojSL00LmGJZD1y4XOMqatN6pNzefN1820MPOlE6qQTG27tFCxqJxd1XWyQ1bJ1yzK8OZn4MIONGO6nE_CLMT59YYRCEM46usUnUS-2QhM6so_aEmLK5M2Am-1OpI3WQo3z42wBkEg_yP_nvXnaS3d5Iexj0OoBRcAs-R6yAHN57_GDE6Od11e0M69jEWpSyRxUywvJp8uxXIczVP_J8ghkTXQ2NBn6q8VAud-WeV-wg&state=%7B%22jslibver%22:%22v2-v0.29.0-14-gea45783%22,%22nonce%22:%224292032483321057%22%7D&token_type=bearer&expires_in=86399998

Level 2
March 15, 2022

Hi Pallavi,

 

The ACS commons redirect map is being used. And i do see the NE flag on the line where the redirect map is mapped to the dispatcher. However that is not working as expected.

Note : there are files having space in the filenames so multiple entries in the file have  a %20 in the source url as well

Pallavi_Shukla_
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
March 16, 2022

What are your encoding settings?