We have a CGI script that will list all the stories tagged with a
specified keyword. For example, if you wanted to see all stories tagged
with "pollution":

/cgi-bin/script.pl?query=gristkeywords=pollution

For a more user-friendly URL, we setup the following rewrite rule in an
.htaccess file that is located in the directory "tag".

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?$ /cgi-bin/script.pl?query=gristkeywords=$1 [L]

This allows a user to use this instead: /tag/pollution

This is all working fine except when we use multiple keywords with "+"
as the separator, such as: /tag/water+pollution

It appears that the "+" is getting stripped out at some point as the
script is returning results for "water pollution" instead of
"water+pollution". Is it possible that Apache is the culprit or should
we be looking more closely at our script or rewrite rule?

Thanks,

Chris

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Chris Schults
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