Hi all,
We have just upgraded the Cisco ACE servers which provide the SSL offloading for our SharePoint 2013 farm in our test environment. The ACE is now on version 2.1e (the latest version).
During testing, an issue was found with the "Add Document" link (the one with the circled plus sign at the top of the list of documents), clicking this link gives an error message. Every other link to the same function (eg, in the ribbon, etc) appears to correctly encode the "List" parameter in the link except for this one, where we have a parameter which looks like this:
List={SOME-RANDOM-GUID}
In the url. Any other link to the same function encodes the {} to %7B and %7D. This is the only link we've found like this.
Braces are not in the list of URI-safe characters, and the original RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) specifically recommends these are encoded "because gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify such characters".
Has anyone else seen this issue? Should it be considered a SharePoint bug as it doesn't correctly encode the characters?
Thanks.