From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:51:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Comment on new rewrite rule.
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Comment on new rewrite rule.
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diff --git a/tools/apache2/mkws-live b/tools/apache2/mkws-live
index 84cd8db..914b1d8 100644
--- a/tools/apache2/mkws-live
+++ b/tools/apache2/mkws-live
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
     RewriteLogLevel 1
     RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/mkws-rewrite.log 
     RewriteRule /service-proxy-auth /service-proxy/?command=auth&action=login&username=demo&password=demo [P] # [NE,P]
+
+    # The following rule allows the server to accept service-proxy
+    # requests that begin with an escaped "%3F" rather than a literal
+    # "?". This is useful, as requests generated by ProxyPass
+    # elsewhere always have the leading "?" escaped for some reason.
     RewriteRule /service-proxy/\?(.*) /service-proxy/?$1 [P] # [NE,P]
 
     Header set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true