How to use .htaccess to redirect to an url that includes a query parameter

Question

Hi guys,

I've been struggling with a redirect where the final URL includes a query parameter that is an URL. It seems htaccess is escaping some characters.

Here is my htaccess:

Code:

RewriteRule ^mypath http s://www.otherserver.com/cookie?param1=123&redirectto=http://otherserver2.com/&param2=1 [L,R=302]

First, if I put

Code:

http s://www.otherserver.com/cookie?param1=123&redirectto=http://otherserver2.com/&param2=1

in my browser address bar, www.otherserver.com will do its thing and then redirect to otherserver2 (including the &param2=1 which is a parameter of that URL and not of the URL otherserver.com) That's the behaviour I need :-)

Now when I try to use the htaccess redirect from my site: http://mysite/mypath; the behaviour is not the same then putting the same URL in the browser address bar; it now tries to redirect to http ://otherserver2.com/ (no param2=1 anymore). (ps: otherserver1 and otherserver2 are not under my control.)

I've tried escaping the redirectto parameter in my htaccess, like below, but it didn't work either:

Code: http s://www.otherserver.com/cookie?param1=123&redirectto=http%3a%2f%otherserver2.com%2f%3fparam2%3d1

Because then my browser tries to go to httpotherserver.com (all special characters are gone)

In the end I would like to see http ://mysite/mypath to show the contents of

Code: http s://www.otherserver.com/cookie?param1=123&redirectto=http://otherserver2.com/&param2=1

(preferred solution) or do a redirect to that URL.

I hope my message is not to confusing, I hope someone can help me out; as I've already spent hours on this :-)