mod_rewrite escaping ???

[raptor]

hi there,

I have problem. The situation is as follow :

RewriteRule ^(.*)\/index\.html$            /tohtml.pl?path=$1

The problem is that I have some directories named like this "blah&wlah",
so a request like this :

/blah&wlah/index.html

rewriten like this :

/tohtml.pl?path=blah&wlah

and then in my script the result is that :

QueryString("path") is equal to "blah", but not to "blah&wlah".

HOW to make escaping in RewriteRule ?

Thanx
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