diff --git a/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_uwsgi.c b/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_uwsgi.c
index e8ce6c710e..f9f3b9111b 100644
--- a/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_uwsgi.c
+++ b/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_uwsgi.c
@@ -84,8 +84,14 @@ static int uwsgi_canon(request_rec *r, char *url)
         host = apr_pstrcat(r->pool, "[", host, "]", NULL);
     }
 
-    path = ap_proxy_canonenc(r->pool, url, strlen(url), enc_path, 0,
-                             r->proxyreq);
+    if (apr_table_get(r->notes, "proxy-nocanon")
+        || apr_table_get(r->notes, "proxy-noencode")) {
+        path = url;   /* this is the raw/encoded path */
+    }
+    else {
+        path = ap_proxy_canonenc(r->pool, url, strlen(url), enc_path, 0,
+                                 r->proxyreq);
+    }
     if (!path) {
         return HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;
     }