RewriteRule and the number sign “#”

Question

I'm trying to make a friendly URL through RewriteRule but it keeps ignoring # as part of the variable value.
The line on .htaccess is as simple as this

RewriteRule ^key/(.+)/$ index.php?key=$1  

and the requested URL is

http://www.example.com/key/c%23/  

but I'm only getting c as get variable and not c%23.

What exactly am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Finally after some digging, I managed to pull this off.

It just needs the B flag on RewriteRule to escape non-alphanumeric characters such as #

RewriteRule ^key/(.+)/$ index.php?key=$1 [B]