HTML Programming Question = REVERSE PROXY ISSUE

[Scarpozzi]

A vendor that sends message to an Email server I support sends confirmation Emails to the users with a link to activate their account. The confirmation link sent follows this format:
https://www.url.com/reference....x=confirm&iigg=MD5HASH

The reverse proxy is rewriting it as:
https://www.url.com/reference....x=confirm-iigg=MD5HASH

Notice before iigg, the & was rewritten as -

Is there a way the vendor can reformat the link so it doesn't get rewritten? In other words, when you send 2 params in a link, what SHOULD the standard be?

Thanks,

-Scar

 

[troytime]

url params SHOULD be seperated by the &

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: troytime
url params SHOULD be seperated by the &

Well...yeah...they won't work without it.

I'm trying to figure out how the link can be sent in the Email so that the Reverse Proxy in front of the Email Web Client doesn't rewrite the & since it's a special character. An "escaped" ampersand should be written as &

The problem is that I'm not seeing what the vendor has to work with...I just wanted to know if there's another way to auto-generate this without me having to do a rewrite scan on every page refresh when our 20k users are checking their Email. 🙁