Ampersands in URLs with CakePHP and Apache mod_rewrite

Hi all,

I'm experiencing problems when using ampersands in named parameters (Cake 1.3) which is a well known mod_rewrite problem.

e.g. if I request www.mysite.com/test/search:this%26that

Apache rewrites it to:

webroot/index.php?search:this&that

That means it's not parsed correctly by CakePHP, as the ampersand in the URL treats the query string as separate name / value pairs.

I don't want to double escape the ampersand as this results in ugly URLs.

Apache introduced a B flag to rewrite rules in version 2.2.7 which solves the problem but it's shared hosting and they won't upgrade to that.  I also tried the NE (no escape) rule but that didn't seem to make any difference.

Anyone experienced the same problem and found a good solution?

Thanks,

Alex

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