Ampersands. I don't want them to be escaped

[Guest]

I'm having a little bit of a problem with mod rewrite and its insistance on escaping stuff that I don't want it to. E.g.

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RewriteRule  ^test/([^/]+)/$ test.php?q=$1 [QSA,NC,L]

and test.php is just this:

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foreach ($_GET as $key => $val) {
    print "{" . $key . "} = {" . $val . "}<br>\n";
}

So if I go to the following URL:

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http://www.site.com/test/this+&+that/

I get the following output:

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{q} = {this }
{that} = {}

The ampersand in there has been missenterpreted by the Apache so it thinks that we want to use the following URL:

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test.php?q=this+&+that

But exactly the same happens if I substitute '&' for '%26'.

What I want to happen is to get a URL where 'q' is 'this & that' or more explicitly:

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test.php?q=this+%26+that

Is there a way to do this?

[Caterham]

What about

http://www.test.com/test/this+%2526+that

%25 => % in Hex-Code

The ampersand in there has been missenterpreted by the Apache so it thinks that we want to use the following URL:

PHP splits the queryString, not apache