RhodeCode CE/EE

Our repository is behind apache ( configured to listen in 80 for web and 8090 svn ).

We can't control how our customers use their repository so we can't bring any naming convention in their files.

A customer added two files, more or less with this label:

• Ricerca allo 0,75% del Pil.txt
• L’hashtag #newHashtag non ancora.txt

Every attempt to checkout this repository lead to a 400 error because RhodeCode + Apache can't handle the improperly used reserved chars.

In apache logs:
Ricerca%20allo%200,75%%20del%20Pil.txt
instead
Ricerca%20allo%200,75%25%20del%20Pil.txt

and

L%E2%80%99hashtag%20#newHashtag%20non%20ancora.txt
instead
L%E2%80%99hashtag%20%23newHashtag%20non%20ancora.txt

I noticed URL come out plain and unescaped from RhodeCode ( to apache ) so I patched roughly the file :

/home/user/.rccontrol/community-1/profile/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rhodecode/lib/middleware/simplesvn.py

in this way:

--- old_simplesvn.py    2017-02-23 15:35:26.325978696 +0100
+++ new_simplesvn.py       2017-02-23 15:30:32.629978696 +0100
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@

 import logging
 from urlparse import urljoin
+from urllib import quote

 import requests
 from webob.exc import HTTPNotAcceptable
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@
         return response.iter_content(chunk_size=1024)

     def _get_url(self, path):
-        return urljoin(
-            self.config.get('subversion_http_server_url', ''), path)
+         return quote(urljoin(
+             self.config.get('subversion_http_server_url', ''), path), safe="/:=~+!$,;'")

     def _get_request_headers(self, environ):
         headers = {}

I know there is a wonderful RFC with all reserved chars listed but we are installing RhodeCode in a pre-existing svn environment.

Is there a cleaner way to manage this situation?