Question mark in url (Apache)

Question

Hello,

I have a problem with a question mark in url. For example I have url "test.com/controller/action/part_1%3Fpart_2" (where %3F is url encoded question mark). With this rewrite rule "RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]" it should be passed to framework I use (Kohana) as is. At least I thought so. The problem is that everything after the url encoded question mark is being treated as GET parameter, so Kohana receives only the "part_1" and I can see that there is an array key "part_2" in $_GET. I think it's web servers problem (apache 2.2). What should I do so apache wouldn't treat url encoded question mark as a GET parameter indicator.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Question mark is one of the reserved characters, used as separator between PATH and QUERY components. So, you cant use it as a part of URI path.