rockerBOO

• 2007-07-26

  %26 to &

  For some reason, web servers convert %26 to & when passing it to any page through GET. Just a simple exception would be nice, but using any type of search engine, and searching for %26 comes up with dates, prices, sizes, but nothing on “%26 to &” conversions. So for example this comes into play when you have

  ?keyword=H%26M&x=y

  Which converts this to

  ?keyword=H&M&x=y

  $_GET['keyword'] = 'h';  $_GET['M'] = '';  $_GET['x'] = 'y';

  Thus making life difficult.

  Edit

  Seems that in .htaccess it converts the %26 to & when it passes it through mod_rewrite. PHP seems to handle this fine, and no problems.