Hidden Space in URL

Question

When I go to http://sweatingthebigstuff.com/lending-club-loans-to-avoid/, I get a 404 page. But when I hit backspace twice, it deletes the / but not the d so there's a hidden space there. Once I delete it, it works.

How is there a hidden space in my URL and can I do something to detect and delete it in the .htaccess file? Otherwise every redirection I add has to be one of each.

EDIT:

Here's what I think may be relevant from the .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[^./]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sweatingthebigstuff.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

RedirectMatch 301 ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$ /$1

It actually looks like this: http://sweatingthebigstuff.com%E2%80%8B/lending-club-loans-to-avoid%E2%80%8B/

Right now, it's redirecting my browser to http://www.sweatingthebigstuff.com/lending-club-loans-avoid/ — Alex W, Jul 06 '12 at 00:14
that's what i'm trying to figure out. I was doing some copy and pasting and realized it was there. But had no idea how it got there and I want them all removed. — Daniel, Jul 06 '12 at 00:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '12 at 00:24

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Try changing

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[^./]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$

to

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

answered Jul 06 '12 at 00:24

Alex W

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That put two slashes on everything (or on everything that already had one slash). – Daniel Jul 06 '12 at 00:33
@Daniel The extra slash is coming from the `/` after `$1` – Alex W Jul 06 '12 at 00:35
i deleted the /, but it didn't fix the issue, when i copied and pasted the code i had, it still went to 404 – Daniel Jul 06 '12 at 00:37
@Daniel what do you mean by the code you had? Is this code other than in your .htaccess file? – Alex W Jul 06 '12 at 00:49
I meant the URL that had the hidden space in it. – Daniel Jul 06 '12 at 01:06

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