Sorry for the noise, the customer blindly copypasted a “security rule from the Internet” in his htaccess, and this was a rules to forbid foreign characters…
You will laugh with me, he wrote that, then complained about the Forbidden he got : > # Rules to block foreign characters in URLs > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(%0|%A|%B|%C|%D|%E|%F).* [NC] > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F] This topic is solved. 2015-04-28 15:42 GMT+02:00 Thomas DEBESSE < thomas.debe...@diocese-frejus-toulon.com>: > Hi, sorry, I don't know why I got a false positive yesterday, but this is > not related to SecFilter, the options change nothing and removing the whole > mod_security module changes nothing, so it's not related to mod_security. > > So this is my problem: > > When a GET parameter use an urlencoded unicode character (like “%C3%A0”) > Apache answers “403 Forbidden” without logging nothing. > I just have to call something like that: > http://domain/script.php?action=Mettre+%C3%A0+jour to get a 403 Forbidden > answer. > > Do you know what is the cause of this problem? > > Thank you in advance > > -- > Thomas DEBESSE > -- Thomas DEBESSE