mod_rewrite urlencoding an already urlencoded query string parameter - any way to disable this?

Question

We have some very basic mod_rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^something.swf$ http://www.newdomain.com/something.swf [R=302,L]

mod_rewrite seems t

Answer 1

the way to accomplish this is via the NE (no escape) paramater.

RewriteRule ^something.swf$ http://www.newdomain.com/something.swf [R=302,L]

should in fact read

RewriteRule ^something.swf$ http://www.newdomain.com/something.swf [R=302,NE,L]

this will force mod_rewrite to leave all query string values as they are, without doing any encoding / escaping.

as easy as that :)