The files I want to deliver using Apache 1.3.33 contain question marks,
e.g.
     .../htdocs/fund?a12.html
To request this file I can use the URL
     http://www.funds.com/fund%3fa12.html

That is no problem. However if I want to use a rewrite rule to get to
the same file I have a problem.

For example with the following to rewrite underscores to '?' ...
     RewriteRule     (.*)_(.*)     $1?$2
and requesting...
     http://www.funds.com/fund_a12.html
... of course doesn't work, because of the expected handling of the '?'
by mod_rewrite

So the next thing to try would be
     RewriteRule     (.*)_(.*)     $1%3f$2
and again requesting...
     http://www.funds.com/fund_a12.html
This also doesn't work because apache is now looking for the following
file
     .../htdocs/fund%3fa12.html

In other words the URL is not "URL decoded" after passing through
mod_rewrite
     
I see two solution to the problem of using mod_rewrite to get to a file
containing a '?'
a) turn off the mod_rewrite's query string handling (function name is
splitout_queryargs)
b) cause URL decoding to be performed again after mod_rewrite

Any idea how this can be done? Or any other solution to the problem?

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Ian Beselin
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