Thanks Rob, this might be it. As we can't expect our users to know to use "%2B" instead of "+", we'll try replacing it in the rewrite.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Robert Landrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:01 AM To: Chris Schults Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: The case of the disappearing plus sign Chris Schults wrote: > 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? > The test would be to hit /cgi-bin/script.pl? with the water+pollution keyword. The problem is most CGI variable processors are going to replace + with a space. I doubt this is an issue with rewrite. You might need to pass the URL encoded string instead of water+pollution... That would be water%2Bpollution. Rob
