Sending file path to controller

[eluser]Loque[/eluser]
Oki yea reading more, the path is completely coming from an HTML page (which is basically a JS pimped file browser), the idea is that you can upload files via FTP and give someone a link to this page with image/movie preview functionality and can click a download button to then download the file... thinking on the spot it might be easier just to make a single PHP file and do this the pre-CI way.

Thanks again guys, please do post if theres an answer, I'm guessing this '/' topic is why people keep on asking about using get queries.

EDIT

Yea minimal I totally agree about doing this with a DB, typical to have a one off... still curious about sending variables to a controller with '/' in however.

EDIT again..

Yea think there may actually be a way with $this->uri->uri_string()