title: .htaccess & and %26 both splitting $_GET
body: <p>Below is my .htaccess file for this particular articles folder. My problem is that these urls both split the $_GET variable when received by the php script.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>/food-and-diet/articles/test-&amp;-cake.html</li>
  <li>/food-and-diet/articles/test-%26-cake.html</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Both of these urls create this $_GET array:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Array ( [article] =&gt; test- [-cake] =&gt; [folder] =&gt; none )
  </code></pre>
  
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  <pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteBase /food-and-diet/
      RewriteRule ^.+(/css/.+)$ $1 [L]
      RewriteRule ^.+(/js/.+)$ $1 [L]
      RewriteRule ^.+(/images/.+)$ $1 [L]
      RewriteRule ^\index.html$ index.php [NC,L]
      Rewriterule ^articles/?$ index.php?index=$1&amp;article=none&amp;folder=none [NC,L]
      Rewriterule ^articles/([^.^/]+)/?$ index.php?article=none&amp;folder=$1 [NC,L]
      RewriteRule ^articles/([^/]+)\.jpg$ articles/$1.jpg [L]
      RewriteRule ^articles/([^/]+)\.gif$ articles/$1.gif [L]
      RewriteRule ^articles/([^/]+)\.png$ articles/$1.png [L]
      Rewriterule ^articles/([^/]+)\.html$ index.php?article=$1&amp;folder=none [NC,L]
      RewriteRule ^articles/([^.^/]+)/([^/]+)\.jpg$ articles/$1/$2.jpg [L]
      RewriteRule ^articles/([^.^/]+)/([^/]+)\.gif$ articles/$1/$2.gif [L]
      RewriteRule ^articles/([^.^/]+)/([^/]+)\.png$ articles/$1/$2.png [L]
      Rewriterule ^articles/([^.^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ index.php?article=$2&amp;folder=$1 [NC,L]
  </code></pre>