Some HTML::Template variables aren't seen by mod_rewrite

[Adam W]

Hello all,

I've run into a very peculiar bug in a cgi script I'm working on.  I'm 
trying to use HTML::Template to add the query string that will be passed 
along to another cgi script, and while this works fine by itself, it is 
not seen by mod_rewrite.  Let me try to explain.

The user signs in to use the script.  The username is stored as a 
variable.  My template file has links such as
<a href="nodes/<TMPL_VAR NAME="nodeid">.cgi?current_user=<TMPL_VAR 
NAME="currentuser">>Go to this node</a>.

I have noticed that mod_rewrite will recognize the variable "nodeid" in 
this example, but it will not recognize anything to the right of the 
.cgi (I've also tried .html, etc.).  If I write a simple test rewrite 
such as:

RewriteRule ^nodes/([0-9]+)\.cgi\?(.+) cf.cgi?nodeid=$1&current_user=$2

and catch the variables in my cgi script (using CGI::Carp), I get the 
correct number back for the nodeid ($1), but nothing back for the 
currentuser ($2), even though the source code for the page shows that I 
have a link with something like nodes/89.cgi?current_user=foo.

Doing the same thing without mod_rewrite (that is, using HTML::Template 
to fill in my cgi variables to be passed around) works fine.

Thanks in advance,
Adam

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