: solr.zappos.com/select/<all the original query stuff and : facets>&fq=brand_exact:VALUE ?
that will work (just remember to URL escape the brand name, and probably put it in quotes too if you think it might contains whitespace. : Should I not be sending the same facets the second time to SOLR? Do : you remove the facet they've just clicked on? depends on your use case ... if you've got a multivalue field you might want to let people keep faceting on it more (brand probably isn't a good example, but what if i pick "red" in a facet on color and there are multitone shoes? .. i might want to see all the options for other colors that i can have on my shoes. -Hoss