mod_rewrite problem

I'm using the following mod_rewrite rule to make sure all users end up
with the same URL, it works well apart from when a request for
http://geoffsoper.co.uk/get_photo.php?id=1542;v=1
is served with
http://www.geoffsoper.co.uk/get_photo.php?id=1542%3bv=1
(I realise I've forgotten to validate the input before it's used in an
SQL query and will remedy this ASAP)

How do I stop the rewritten URL becoming URLencoded like this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^geoffsoper\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.geoffsoper.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

On 12 Apr 2005 13:37:31 -0700, Geoff Soper <geoff.google.nospam@alphaworks.co.uk> wrote:
> How do I stop the rewritten URL becoming URLencoded like this?
>
To quote the docs:

'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.

vh

Mads Toftum
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