If you are using Apache and if you are passing encoded slashes in URL then Apache http web server immediately returns a “404 (Not Found)” error when it encounters URLencoded versions of path separators or slashes in URL (Uniform Resource Locator). These are %2F for forward slash (/) and %5C for back slash (\).
The server simply rejects the URL without invoking mod_proxy or mod_rewrite.
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