Doesn't work with paths containing special characters

[mbbillz]

Trying to redirect a path that contains a plus sign and a hyphen. Neither work.

[wkallhof]

@mbbillz What do you mean by "Neither work"? Do you receive an error?

If your plus symbol is in your url path, then you are likely running into a "The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that contains a double escape sequence." error. By default, the plus symbol is not allowed in url paths outside of a query parameter for security reasons. It is likely that the request isn't even reaching the Simple301 package code.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7739233/double-escape-sequence-inside-a-url-the-request-filtering-module-is-configured

In regard to hyphen characters, I am able to successfully redirect from a URL that contains a hyphen. Can you provide an example of a URL that doesn't work for you?

[NeilHodges]

Hi
Great package! I'm adding a few url's that don't seem to be re-directing?

I have /blog/posts/2013/september/become-‘utterly-ruthless’
and need to re direct it to:
/blog/posts/2013/september/become-utterly-ruthless

So redirecting the url with the quotes to one without. Any ideas as to why it won't re direct and any solution to get it to redirect?

Im using Umbraco 7.4.3

Cheers.