>>>> Try e.g. [R,B= ?,...] >>>> >>>> The question mark is to avoid the issue of not being able to have " " >>>> as the final character in this syntax. >>> >> >> Sorry, the above doesn't work. Someone reported in another thread: [R,B=\ ] > > The real trick seems to be quoting the entirety of the flags, then > finding any 2nd character to escape. > RewriteRule ... "[B= ?]" Thanks for pointing that out. Quoting the entirety of the flags works. Would be great to get that into the documentation. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html#flag_b >> Thanks for the suggestion. I am unable to make 2.4.52 (Ubuntu) accept space for the B-flag. I have tried first, middle, last, only flag but always getting "RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters". >> >> I am also having concerns whether this would work (unable to test at this time). >> - The spaces would likely be double-encoded unless adding NE > > In your case, with just B you'd end up with space->+ and the default > escaping w/o NE does not touch a +. After some additional experiments I was leaning towards "[R,B= +,...]" since a plus character would otherwise be confused with space (was actually a bug before when using [R, ...]). However, the plus character will then be double escaped into %252b. Sigh. >> - Adding NE would suppress encoding of all other characters that should be encoded in the query string > > A colleague proposed a fix to this scenario, where the new check could > be omitted if redirecting and escaping. That would be great in order to maintain the historical behavior and keep a simpler syntax (but the plus character is still a challenge). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx