[eluser]bretticus[/eluser]
@jayrulez You said it well.
Yes, I do sympathize with the fact that enabling query strings together with a segment based URI approach (mod_rewrite) depends on conditions that are outside of the control of the application (because it's higher up in the Web server.) I really feel like the CI guys just made a snap decision that certainly "gets in the way." I think the dialog was something like, "Man, there are so many inherent problems with query strings in this approach, let's just disable GET or force them to use query strings only."
I say, put some core logic in there that utilizes one of the hacks. Set it to FALSE in config and let us deal with the servers.
Perhaps, there is a way (parsing and analyzing the $_SERVER global, for example) to make a catch-all method of grabbing GET data. I'm just surprised that with all the complaints (yes, I have done my share) they haven't tried a solution better than $config['enable_query_strings'] = TRUE;
