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Darren_Walker_2's avatar
Darren_Walker_2
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Apr 18, 2018

Enable compression of two or more adjacent slashes in a URI into a single slash.

Nginx has a merge_slashes module that will evaluate a URI like "/foo; and change it to "/foo/bar/foobar?slashes=many". But our IIS websites just display the browser URL the way the user input it: Our...
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crodriguez
Ret. Employee
Apr 19, 2018

You might be able to use something like this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::uri] contains "//" } {
        set URIquals [split [HTTP::uri] "/"]
        set newURI ""
        foreach qual $URIquals {
            if { $qual ne "" } {
                append newURI "/" $qual
            }
        }
        HTTP::uri $newURI
    }
}

I ran a small test using your input string above:

Before URI: /foo

After URI: /foo/bar/foobar?slashes=many