RewriteRule dropping escaped parameter

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Published on 2010-05-04T06:54:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 6:58 UTC
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I need some help with the following RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^/iesearch/(.*)$ /jsp/search/ieaccelerators/visualsearch.jsp?q=$1 [L,PT]

The intention is to rewrite search-queries from http://mydomain/iesearch/alvin+the+chip to a JSP. This works fine as long as the URL does not contain encoded characters such as: http://mydomain/iesearch/alvin+%26+the+chip.

The rewrite log shows the following: (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /iesearch/alvin+&+the+chip

(2) rewrite '/iesearch/alvin+the+&+chip' -> '/jsp/search/ieaccelerators/visualsearch.jsp?q=alvin+&+the+chip'

(3) split uri=/jsp/search/ieaccelerators/visualsearch.jsp?q=alvin+&+the+chip -> uri=/jsp/search/ieaccelerators/visualsearch.jsp, args=q=alvin+&+the+chip

I would have hoped that the %26 is passed on instead of the &.

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