Re: The case of the disappearing plus sign
Chris Schults wrote: It appears that the + is getting stripped out at some point as the script is returning results for water pollution instead of water+pollution. Is it possible that Apache is the culprit or should we be looking more closely at our script or rewrite rule? The test would be to hit /cgi-bin/script.pl? with the water+pollution keyword. The problem is most CGI variable processors are going to replace + with a space. I doubt this is an issue with rewrite. You might need to pass the URL encoded string instead of water+pollution... That would be water%2Bpollution. Rob
Re: The case of the disappearing plus sign
I wouldn't really call this a modperl question but regardless... Chris Schults wrote: It appears that the + is getting stripped out at some point as the script is returning results for water pollution instead of water+pollution. Is it possible that Apache is the culprit or should we be looking more closely at our script or rewrite rule? I'd suggest looking more closely at the HTTP specs... + represents a space in a URL so your program will be fed a space by CGI - probably nothing to do with the rewrite. To sign up for Grist by email, the world's top environmental news served up with a sense of humor, click here http://www.grist.org/signup/ or send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To sign up for mod_perl, the world's top web applications platform served with tongue firmly in cheek, ... John
RE: The case of the disappearing plus sign
Thanks Rob, this might be it. As we can't expect our users to know to use %2B instead of +, we'll try replacing it in the rewrite. Chris -Original Message- From: Robert Landrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:01 AM To: Chris Schults Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: The case of the disappearing plus sign Chris Schults wrote: It appears that the + is getting stripped out at some point as the script is returning results for water pollution instead of water+pollution. Is it possible that Apache is the culprit or should we be looking more closely at our script or rewrite rule? The test would be to hit /cgi-bin/script.pl? with the water+pollution keyword. The problem is most CGI variable processors are going to replace + with a space. I doubt this is an issue with rewrite. You might need to pass the URL encoded string instead of water+pollution... That would be water%2Bpollution. Rob
RE: The case of the disappearing plus sign
I wouldn't really call this a modperl question but regardless... Sorry if this was off topic. I subscribed to this list a few months ago for another issue and have seen a number of posts dealing with mod_rewrite. I'll be mindful in the future. Chris
