Farcrysolrpro pagination and + sign

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Just wondering is anyone has a suggestion how to get around the ‘+’ sign in the pagination with search results.
eg the original search call is:

/search?q=big+world&operator=any&lContentTypes=&orderby=rank

but the pagination always renders like this:

/search/q/big+world/orderby/rank/operator/any/page/2

This causes farcry not to be able to identify the /search page and so throws an error:

That page could not be found

If you manually change the URL to:

/search/q/big%20world/orderby/rank/operator/any/page/2

All is good.
Does anyone have a suggestion on getting this to work out of the box?
Phil

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I just tried this in several different browsers and cannot replicate the problem yet.

What is your platform scenario? (FarCry version, plugin version, browser version)

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Hi Jeff,
Linux CF11 FC706 farcrysolrpro1.2.11 (checked with current FF and Chrome)
Just tested it on running site using linux/railo4/FC702 with the same results.
just try putting /search/operator/any/q/honey+bee/orderby/rank/page/2 in the url, and getpage could not be found.
I have however produced a work around by extending the forms/farPagination.cfc and adding to thegetPaginationLinkHREF() :

 <cfset result = replace(result,'+','%20','all')>

But I’m surprised no one else has seen this.

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You need to add + to the rewrite rule in IIS or Apache. I’ll post an example when I get to my desk. It’s not a problem with FC or the plugin but the example rewrite rule that everyone uses for Friendly URLs

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OK, so change the rewrite rule like this:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\/\-\%\+:\[\]\{\}\|\;\<\>\?\,\*\!\@\#\$\ \(\)\^_`~]*)$ /index.cfm?furl=$1 [L,PT,QSA]

Note the “\+” after the “%” entry. This allows for “+” as a valid character in a URL, which it is, so it should be allowed.

I discovered this using the new EncodeForURL function in CF10+ which, unlike urlEncodedFormat() replaces spaces with plus characters instead of “%20”.

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Sweet, that did the trick.
The rewrite rule was the last place I’d think of looking, so cheers for that Sean. :smile: