How can i redirect a url that has % in it?

[Madlena]

Google webmaster tools shows a 400 eroor for an old  link that contains a 30% off in it. The problem is the %

I would like to 301 redirect this link :

http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery,-35%-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html

to

http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html

We do not know how to do this in httaccess. Can you please advise?

Thanks a lot!

Madlena

[joseph.chambers]

You need to encode it.

[komimoda@home ~]$ php echo urlencode('http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery,-35%-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html'); ?> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geographics.com%2FGraduation-Stationery%2C-35%25-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates%2Fc1353_1354_1359%2Findex.html[komimoda@home ~]$

It's bombing on the %-  that isn't a number after it. If you want to shoot me a email I can get it done for you for free? joseph@michael-chambers.com

Without db hashing, it's nearly impossible to get those from htaccess into a rewrite table lookup. %20 for sure. apache turns the char back to a space before passing it on for comparison. and text based of course, uses the space as a separater between match, and replacement. It probably also turns %25 back into a % before hash tables too. sorry tmi.

Oh look at this:

http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery%2C-35%25-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html