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So one of my domains has the following problem:

A url like this does not work:
http://domain.com/ee/?/store/downloads/FSW1NTmV5ejhmQVIwNTQ=

But this does:
http://domain.com/ee/?/store/downloads/FSW1NTmV5ejhmQVIwNTQ=

Is the % character disallowed in URLs? I wouldn’t think so… it’s a pretty standard URL encoding character. Any ideas?

Chris, not seeing the % in either link. ....

Which version/build of ExpressionEngine 1.6.x are you using? You can find that out at the bottom of any control panel page.

The current version of the 1.6.x branch is 1.6.9 and the build is 20100430.

When you say it doesn’t work, what do you mean?

Sorry, the EE boards converted the “% 3 d” character to =

the following is the failing link (remove the spaces)

fails
<a href="http://domain.com/ee/?/store/downloads/FSW1NTmV5ejhmQVIwNTQ">http://domain.com/ee/?/store/downloads/FSW1NTmV5ejhmQVIwNTQ</a> % 3 d 

does not fail.
<a href="http://domain.com/ee/?/store/downloads/FSW1NTmV5ejhmQVIwNTQ=">http://domain.com/ee/?/store/downloads/FSW1NTmV5ejhmQVIwNTQ=</a>

EE vs. 1.6.8, build 20091201

And, sorry, in the subject i mentioned the crux of the problem, but not in the post.

If I go to the “failed” link, I get the following output on the page:

Disallowed Key Characters

And it’s not due to a cookie issue… EE’s choking on the encoded = sign in the URL.

I think it’s more likely the ? in the URL that’s causing the problem. EE sees it and expects a valid key (as in key/value pair). But first, we’ll need to troubleshoot without any sort of URL rewriting and with index.php back in the URLs.

We made a workaround, so as far as I’m concerned, you can close this out. For us… the point is now moot.

Thanks for the help 😊

Ah, no problem. Glad you’re up and running.