[UPHPU] Using mod_rewrite to Pass URLs as GET Variables

[Kirk Ouimet]

Hi list,

 

I've run into an interesting problem with mod_rewrite. I'm trying to create
a URL structure where I can pass an entire URL as a GET variable. For
example, I want to capture everything past url/:

 

http://www.mysite.com/url/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en
<http://www.mysite.com/url/http:/www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=test&btnG=Sea
rch&cts=1240079299914> &q=test&btnG=Search&cts=1240079299914

 

Ideally, I want the GET variable passed to PHP to be:

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=test&btnG=Search&cts=1240079299914>
&q=test&btnG=Search&cts=1240079299914

 

I got it working for everything up to the query string using this rule:

 

RewriteRule ^url/(.+)$ /?page=url&url=$1 [L]

 

It matched:

 

http:/www.google.com/search

 

My guess was anything past the ? would not be interpreted by mod_rewrite, so
I tried to capture the query string by adding a trailing slash to both my
URL and my rewrite rule:

 

RewriteRule ^url/(.+)/$ /?page=url&url=$1 [L]

 

This broke things and I got this error:

 

The requested URL /url/http:/www.google.com/search was not found on this
server.

(Source:
http://www.mysite.com/url/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=test&btnG=Sea
rch&cts=1240079299914/)

 

I thought I could fix it by encoding the URL contents. I was wrong:

 

The requested URL
/url/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=test&btnG=Search&cts=1240079299914
/ was not found on this server.

(Source:
http://www.mysite.com/url/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26q
%3Dtest%26btnG%3DSearch%26cts%3D1240079299914/)

 

Can anyone give me any insight as to why ^url/(.+)/$ won't match:

http://www.mysite.com/url/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26q
%3Dtest%26btnG%3DSearch%26cts%3D1240079299914/

 

Thanks!

 

Kirk Ouimet

 <mailto:kirk at kirkouimet.com> kirk at kirkouimet.com