Better URL control

[eluser]DougW[/eluser]
I was having trouble with generated URLS that had + signs in them. Like this...

http://www.jesustweeters.com/daily/messa...nks+in+his

I was getting 'invalid characters in URL' errors. So I searched this forum and found that this:

$config['enable_query_strings'] = TRUE;

Would solve it. And it did.

But now I get these kinds of URLS...

http://www.jesustweeters.com/?/

What causes that? It seems to be related to doing a redirect('/');

Any ideas?

[eluser]DougW[/eluser]
I was able to temporarily solve this by adding + to the valid url characters. Is that the only/best solution?

[eluser]ortwin.van.vessem[/eluser]
Hi DougW,

Adding the + symbol to the valid url characters is the correct way to allow them in your URI-string. Keep in mind that the + symbol is not SEO friendly. You'd better use the - symbol.

Please find the modification on the following Github page: https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/pull/248/files

[eluser]DougW[/eluser]
This worked great! Thanks!

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
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