Can I use REQUEST_URI with thickbox?

[eluser]rvillalon[/eluser]
I need to use REQUEST_URI for the rest of my website but this prevents me from using thickbox... anyone have this problem before?

[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
It is more likely an issue with mod_rewrite. What exact problems are you seeing?

[eluser]rvillalon[/eluser]
The following link for thickbox doesn't work:

http://mywebsite.com/modal?TB_iframe=tru...modal=true

I get a "The page you requested was not found."

Here are my settings:
$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI";
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = '?=&a-z 0-9~%.:_-';

My .htaccess
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|stylesheets|js|captcha|css|repository|sortable|crossdomain\.xml|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

[eluser]rvillalon[/eluser]
Update:

I fixed my issue with thickbox by adding this to the route file

$route['(^modal([?=&a-z 0-9~%.:_-]+))'] = "modal";

It removes all the parameters (thickbox settings) and redirects it to the modal controller. Viola!

Hope this helps someone in the future. Took me forever to find a work-around.