HTTP 403 Error on Requests Using Apostrophe in Apache HTTPD

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Getting HTTP 403 error when submitting a request with an apostrophe character.

  • Relevant log without apostrophe:

    10.1.232.7 - - [07/Aug/2012:13:25:50 -0500] "POST /some_url/Text HTTP/1.1" 200 120 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1" 743827

  • Relevant log with apostrophe:

    10.1.232.7 - - [07/Aug/2012:13:52:21 -0500] "POST /some_url/%27Text HTTP/1.1" 403 257 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1" 670

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Red Hat JBoss Core Services (JBCS)
  • Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
    • mod_security
  • Siteminder WebAgent

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