# in httpd.conf. if there is drop down behavior, maybe something like this... RewriteEngine On RewriteMap url-decode-map prg:/path/to/url-decode-map.pl RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /${url-decode-map:$1} RewriteRule ^/quotes(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/quotes$1 [R] # This would be the perl script saved in /path/to/url-decode-map.pl #!/usr/bin/perl # This is the url decode script (chmod me to 755): url-decode-map.pl my $str = $ARGV[0]; $str =~ s/\%([A-Fa-f0-9]{2})/pack('C', hex($1))/seg; return $str;