I have a CMS that writes static files. We're trying to provide a stripped version of the site for mobile browsers and we're doing this with a perl script. What I need is a way to strip query string info and pass it to the script. So our rss feed would have a link like this: 
www.site.com/article.html?id=1234&site=mysite

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I need a way through the .htaccess file to strip everything after the question mark and pass it to something like: 
www.site.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1234&site=mysite

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So I'm using the following to detect the mobile browsers and pass them to the script, but it doesn't really work. It passes them to the script but includes the entire original URL after the question mark: 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mobile/.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Windows CE" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Ericsson" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Samsung" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "NetFront" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Palm OS" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Blazer" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Elaine" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^WAP.*$" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Plucker" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "vodafone" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "iPhone" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "nokia" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "symbian" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Opera Mini" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "BlackBerry" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "j2me" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "midp" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "htc" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "java" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "sony" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "AvantGo" [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?$1

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The last line doesn't really work. Any idea if this is doable? I know it's slightly off topic but there are some smart people around here. Thanks.

In reply to Grabbing query string by htmanning

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