title: Force GET variable (url) to not be encoded
body: <p>I've been coding in PHP for a while, and this is the first time I came across this issue.
  My goal is to pass a GET variable (a url) without encoding or decoding it. Which means that "%2F" will not turn to "/" and the opposite. The reason for that is that I'm passing this variable to a 3rd party website and the vairable must stay exactly the way it is.</p>
  
  <p>Right now what's happening is that this url (passed as a GET variable):<code>http://example.com/something%2Felse</code> turns into <code>http://example.com/something/else</code>.</p>
  
  <p>How can I prevent php from encoding what's passed in GET?</p>