How to add escape characters in URLRewrite

Question

I would like to add the following rule in my urlrewrite.xml (Lucee server):

<from>^([a-zA-Z0-9\/\-\%\+:\[\]\{\}\|\;\<\>\?\,\*\!\@\#\$\ \(\)\^_`~]*)$</from>
<to type="passthrough">/index.cfm?furl=$1</to>

but unfortunately i receive an error regarding < character. For your better assistance, i attach the following image:

Any idea that could help me?

Regards

Answer 1

You're putting invalid characters in your XML value.

This is what it should be:

<from>^([a-zA-Z0-9\/\-\%\+:\[\]\{\}\|\;\&lt;\&gt;\?\,\*\!\@\#\$\ \(\)\^_`~]*)$</from>

These characters need to be escaped in XML:

&
'
"
<
>

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references#Predefined_entities_in_XML