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mod-rewrite
user183082
user183082

Reputation:

mod_rewrite not forwarding encoded hash?

I have a small collection of text files on a server. The URLs look like this: http://mysite.com/My%20Text%20File.txt

I have a small PHP script that takes the text file URI as a parameter and converts the text file to JSON: http://mysite.com/json.php?file=/My%20Text%20File.txt

And I have a rewrite rule that makes it pretty: RewriteRule ^(.*).json$ /json.php?file=$1.txt

And it works great. Now the URI for the JSON is identical to the text URIs, except for the file extension. But if I have a text file with an encoded has in the name: http://mysite.com/Text%20File%20%231.txt

Apache has no trouble opening the text file. Similarly the "real" URI works: http://mysite.com/json.php?file=/Text%20File%20%231.txt

But the rewrite rule flubs it. So the "file" GET parameter that PHP sees is "/Text%20File%20" -- with the hash and after missing.

I could avoid files with hashes in the name, but I'm curious why the hash gets unencoded when other encoded characters do not, and I can't find any reference to this elsewhere.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143906

You need to use the B flag in your rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*).json$ /json.php?file=$1.txt [B]

Upvotes: 1

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