Nginx url decoding URI problem with proxy_pass

Greetings Nginx mailing list! I'm using nginx as an image proxy and am using proxy_pass to fetch the image. Unfortunately if that image URL has a space in it the proxy_pass fails. It works fine with any other image. example successful URL: /image_preview/https://somedomain.com/image.jpg example

gzip compression won't disable

Hey all, I'm running nginx 1.2.6 from a packaged install on Ubuntu 13.04. I'm at a total loss as to how this is happening but I simply cannot disable gzip compression for my server no matter what I try. Setting gzip off; in nginx.conf in the http context doesn't work. I modified the default config