Apache: RewriteRule removing trailing dot

Question

Here is my .htaccess rules:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?var1=$1&item=$2&var2=%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?var1=$1 [NC]

Here is an url (with trailing dot in the end): http://localhost/test/secondvar.

The problem is that the trailing dot is not coming inside the var2 GET variable

I used a print_r($_GET) and here is the result with the above url:

Array ( [var1] => test [var2] => secondvar [uri] => /test/secondvar. )

So my question is, how do I get that trailing dot from the URL as a parameter to the var? As you can see, the REQUEST_URI is showing that the apache knows of the dot.

I know I can not send the paths as GET parameters and take care to read the paths in the URI from PHP, but I would like to know why the dot isn't coming and how to fix it, if too complicated I rather go for the direct PHP solution.

EDIT: Is not only trailing dot but trailing ? too... =[

Answer 1

It might just be that php excludes trailing dots. I know that they often convert dot's in POST/GET to underscores. I would just do

explode('/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])