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Date: 26 Sep 2000 12:13:37 -0000
From: Massimo Santini <santini@dsi.unimi.it>
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Subject: mod_rewrite escaping prevents the use of w3c recomanded cgi field separator ';'
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>Number:         6586
>Category:       mod_rewrite
>Synopsis:       mod_rewrite escaping prevents the use of w3c recomanded cgi field separator ';'
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          duplicate
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 26 05:20:03 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     santini@dsi.unimi.it
>Release:        Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Linux zorn 2.2.16-3 #1 Mon Jun 19 19:11:44 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
>Description:
As noted in bug PR number 5633, mod_rewrite escapes QUERY_STRINGS on redirects.
The use of ';' as a cgi field separator (as recomanded by w3c) becomes impossible
since after rewrinting it becomes '%3b'. It should be addressed at least with
explicit options.L
>How-To-Repeat:
RewriteRule   ^/R/([A-Za-z_]+)$   /R.php?A=1  [R,L]
>Fix:
User side: step back to '&' (which is not escaped), but not recomanded.  
Developer side: add an option to control escaping.
>Release-Note:
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