Problem with urldecode(), maybe encoding problem

[eluser]adityamenon[/eluser]
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I think it's because the browsers have some inbuilt mechanism to deal with uncommon GET variables, when left to themselves. But when entering from the address bar, the browser is not having a chance to pre-process the stuff... maybe it's stopping the special characters for security. If you find out a way out of this, please post it here. I was going to post an answer saying "use htmlentities, then send the var via GET, then use html_entity_decode to get your value" - but after I really read your question, I understood that you're talking about the address bar...