Re: The case of the disappearing plus sign

[John ORourke <suppressed>]

I wouldn't really call this a modperl question but regardless...

Chris Schults wrote:
> It appears that the "+" is getting stripped out at some point as the
> script is returning results for "water pollution" instead of
> "water+pollution". Is it possible that Apache is the culprit or should
> we be looking more closely at our script or rewrite rule?
>   
I'd suggest looking more closely at the HTTP specs... + represents a 
space in a URL so your program will be fed a space by CGI - probably 
nothing to do with the rewrite.

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