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Drew
Drew

Reputation: 524

URL Rewrite keep %20 in Query String

I am trying to make a rewrite rule to move all pdf's on my site to point to a specific page and then use a Query String as the pdf's current file path to do a look up in a dictionary to see if that url is in my dictionary if it is redirect them to the correct page. The catch is my dictionary of urls has %20 and when I pull the query string it turns the %20 in a space. Thanks for any and all help.

Can you rewrite it to keep the %20 in the query string?

Example URL: /example/example/Big%20Small%20Something%20Pad.pdf

My Rewrite:

RewriteRule ([^/]*)\.pdf$  /redirectPDF.aspx?pdf=$1.pdf [NE,QSA]

Current Query String Output: Big Small Something Pad.pdf

What I want it to look like is Big%20Small%20Someting%20Pad.pdf

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1266

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143886

Try removing the NE flag. According to ISAPI docs:
http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/RewriteRule.htm:

noescape|NE

Don't escape output. By default ISAPI_Rewrite will encode all non-ANSI >characters as %xx hex codes in output.

So it looks like you simply want to omit the NE so that it'll encode the output like it does by default.

RewriteRule ([^/]*)\.pdf$  /redirectPDF.aspx?pdf=$1.pdf [QSA]

Upvotes: 1

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