Dear cakephp experts,
While passing parameters through URL, there are cases when the parameters
contain funny characters like %$#. This problem is solved when I encode the
URL. However, for some reason, characters such as backslash / and
forward-slash \ simply do not work on cakephp. All other
you can either write your own escaping function who takes care of those
characters, or better, use base64encode to pass those special character
strings via $_GET
but there you also need to tweak it a little bit,
see the CakeDC search plugin for details where I fixed the method to safely
encode
