dusky - 3:57 pm on May 9, 2010 (gmt 0)

Yes, that's exactly that, the fix is when the URLs are already mod rewritten and only for certain types of CMSes otherwise it has to be modified to work for other types of pages.

In addition, best practices suggest that a full URL --protocol, domain, and URL-path-- should be used in any rule intended to invoke an external redirect.

Advice noted jdMorgan, yes I ought to know better I guess.