How to set up a redirect with a url that contains special characters?

Question

htaccess

A url of the form https://site.ru/section/%20target=/ appeared on the site, it needs to be redirected to https://site.ru/section/
A simple redirect does not work, since the string contains special characters. I tried to escape with a backslash, https://site.ru/section/\%20target\=/ doesn't work either. Oddly enough, there is very little information on the Internet about this, has anyone really come across it?

Answer 1

At the beginning of .htaccess add:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} " /section/%20"
RewriteRule ^ https://site.ru/section/ [R=301,L]

Or

RewriteRule ^section/\s https://site.ru/section/ [R=301,L]