I have a similar thread and I’ve been told to ignore the people who have links coming into my site where they left a space, creating a special character leading with % sign for the bots, causing them to encounter 404 errors, and people who left backslash on, like \, causing either 404 for that or the url encoded % symbol, which also creates a 404 response to the bots.
While I want to just accept incoming links with errors must be ignored, I can easily 301 redirect these to proper url (just pull off everything starting with either “\” or “%”) and redirect to first part of link, there are thousands of them like this incoming.
Is there an nginx redirect that could solve this?
Cheers!
Ryan