How do you configure Apache/PHP to accept slashes in query strings?

Question

I have two Apache servers running PHP. One accepts forward-slashes in the query string and passes it along to PHP in the expected way, for example:

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Answer 1

http://server/index.php?url=http://foo.bar is not a valid url. You have to encode the slashes. I think browsers do this automagically, so maybe you were testing with different browsers?

Or perhaps it's the AllowEncodedSlashes setting?