I have a rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1

However, if i request http://server/search/ben%26jerry , it doesn't
return http://server/search.php?q=ben%26jerry, but rather
http://server/search.php?q=ben&jerry

Can anyone please me to solve this problem?

"sleek" <cslush@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a rewrite rule:
>
> RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1
>
> However, if i request http://server/search/ben%26jerry , it doesn't
> return http://server/search.php?q=ben%26jerry, but rather
> http://server/search.php?q=ben&jerry
>
> Can anyone please me to solve this problem?
>

I believe there is a flag for this,

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

'noescape|NE' (no URI escaping of output)
This flag keeps mod_rewrite from applying the usual URI escaping rules to
the result of a rewrite. Ordinarily, special characters (such as '%', '$',
';', and so on) will be escaped into their hexcode equivalents ('%25',
'%24', and '%3B', respectively); this flag prevents this from being done.
This allows percent symbols to appear in the output, as in

Jon