[Solved] ISAPI Rewrite not encoding pipe character

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   Hey guys, someone made a genius post a while back about ISAPI rewrite (I believe it was Sean? Could be wrong - can't find original post now).

Anyways, I applied it to my site and after a couple modifications everything was working fine.

However, the categorysearchfields were being messed up because isapi rewrite was encoding pipe ( | ) characters into %307C or something.

Anyways, the way to fix it is to add a NE flag to the redirect rule in isapi rewrites httpd.ini (or whatever ini file it is).

Here's the code:

---------------------------------------------------------------------

# Permanently redirect all pages that were using sub-directories:

RewriteRule ^store/pc/(.*)$ $1 [NE,NC,R=301,L]

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You'll see that line has NE flag in it now, I assume this means no encoding(?). Anyways, if you're someone who has applied this with the original post's http.ini config info, then you might have ran into the same problem I did with pipes not decoding correctly.

The solution is simply to add the NE flag to your redirect rules. Hope this saves someone else some time.

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Brett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22-April-2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brett Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: [Solved] ISAPI Rewrite not encoding pipe character Posted: 18-March-2010 at 5:02pm
	Hey guys, someone made a genius post a while back about ISAPI rewrite (I believe it was Sean? Could be wrong - can't find original post now). Anyways, I applied it to my site and after a couple modifications everything was working fine. However, the categorysearchfields were being messed up because isapi rewrite was encoding pipe ( \| ) characters into %307C or something. Anyways, the way to fix it is to add a NE flag to the redirect rule in isapi rewrites httpd.ini (or whatever ini file it is). Here's the code: --------------------------------------------------------------------- # Permanently redirect all pages that were using sub-directories: RewriteRule ^store/pc/(.*)$ $1 [NE,NC,R=301,L] --------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll see that line has NE flag in it now, I assume this means no encoding(?). Anyways, if you're someone who has applied this with the original post's http.ini config info, then you might have ran into the same problem I did with pipes not decoding correctly. The solution is simply to add the NE flag to your redirect rules. Hope this saves someone else some time.