This was a good hint. Apparently php's ext/filter does some fancy recoding of some sort for the ' which then later is producing this encoded url.
Now that I am not using ext/filter everything is fine ;) Thanks a lot! Fred. Am 07.10.2007 16:13 Uhr schrieb "Yonik Seeley" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/6/07, Frederik M. Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Looks like we ran into a urldecode problem when having certain query >> strings. This is what happens: >> >> Client: Jeffrey's Bay -> Jeffrey%26%2339%3Bs+Bay (php 5.2 >> urlencode/rawurlencode) > > It looks like the client is doing XML escaping as it replaces ' with ' > Then each char of the ' is URL encoded. This is incorrect of > course, urlencoding has nothing to do with XML. > > -Yonik