htaccess regex not accepting some special characters

Question

I have a PHP script located at http://localhost/dir1/dir2/shift.php that I am passing urls as parameters to like so: http://localhost/dir1/dir2/https://google.com but I am getting a Forbidden you don't have access error. When I remove the : it works fine though. I have checked my regex with some online regex validation tools and it says that it should be working but it doesn't

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^dir1\/dir2\/([A-Za-z0-9\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\_\-\+\=\{\}\[\]\;\:\'\"\<\,\>\.\?\|\~\`\s\/\\]+)\/?  dir1\/dir2\/shift.php?url=$1 [L]

Any help would be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

You should not use reserved characters in URL.

Though you can URL encode and then pass it as a parameter. For example:

http://localhost/dir1/dir2/shift.php?
param=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fdir1%2Fdir2%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com

And then in shift.php you can first URL decode the parameter and then use.