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Laravel Redirect for Weird Encoded Space – Apache

It seems we have some weird broken incoming links for our website that we would like to redirect. We are using Laravel on Apache.

Here is the incoming url: /flannel-sheets%C2%A0

Here is where we want to send it: /flannel-sheets

%C2%A0 seems to decode to a strange space.

I have tried these lines in the web.php file

$this->get( 'flannel-sheets%C2%A0', function() { return redirect( '/flannel-sheets' ); });
$this->get('flannel-sheets ', function() { return redirect( '/flannel-sheets' ); });
$this->get('flannel-sheets$nbsp;', function() { return redirect( '/flannel-sheets' ); });

I have also tried using Apache redirects in my 000-default.config and .htaccess files

Redirect 301 /flannel-sheets%C2%A0 https://example.com/flannel-sheets

Neither of these methods are working for me. What should I do?

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  1. 0

    So it is a non-breaking space (0xC2 0xA0).   Annoying to deal with these once they are in the wild, bad inbound links that is.

    Using mod_rewrite is probably the best option here. Something like this would work…

    RewriteRule ^(.+)xc2xa0$ $1 [L,NE]

    You’ll want to check for those characters, not their URL encodings. I’m wondering if mod_speling offers anything useful for this scenario… not seeing anything so far.

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  2. 0

    you can fix it using :

    # remove spaces from start or after /
RewriteRule ^(.*/|)[s%20]+(.+)$ $1$2 [L]

# remove spaces from end or before /
RewriteRule ^(.+?)[s%20]+(/.*|)$ $1$2 [L]

# replace spaces by - in between
RewriteRule ^([^s%20]*)(?:s|%20)+(.*)$ $1-$2 [L,R]

    or you can receive the broken routes dynamically 

    $this->get( '/{route}', function($route) { 
//filter $route the way you need
 ); });
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