mod_rewrite and escaped / (%2f) in query string

Question

I want to redirect the following url

oldsite.com/index.htm?Page?somepath%2fsomefile 

to

newsite.com/productindex.htm?p=somepath%2fsomefile 

I have the following rules

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Page=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^index.htm$ http://newsite.com?p=%1 [R=301,NC,L] 

But it redirects to

newsite.com/productindex.htm?p=somepath%252Fsomefile >--------------------------------------^^^^^ 

There are a lot of references about a long standing bug with double escaping that was recently fixed (2.2.12 I think) and as I am running 2.2.9 I thought the RewriteRule B flag may help, but it makes it worse...

newsite.com/productindex.htm?p=somepath%25252Fsomefile >--------------------------------------^^^^^^^ 

Any ideas from the Apache gurus?

Answer 1

Its the NE (No Escape) flag that I need

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Page=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^index.htm$ http://newsite.com?p=%1 [R=301,NC,L,NE]