Nginx cant serve files with special symbols in them?

Question

So in browser i request a file that i know it exists

3a1c2aa4d488ae4d?s=40?f=78

but it gives me a 404 error and in log says that it couldn't find file named 3a1c2aa4d488ae4d. For some reason it cuts the part of the filename after ? and tries to open that file instead.

I would understand the problem in windows but this is Centos.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Answer 1

The ? will be considered as parameters, as the request will be considered as HTML query string. You need to encode the special symbols so that they are treated as characters and not command parts.

Better yet, use sensible file names.