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Solved by adding AllowEncodedSlashes On to the httpd.conf (must be in the virtual if using virtual).

I'm stumbling here because this is a problem that does not occur in dev, but does occur in production.

Last three routes-

  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format', 
    :controller => 'proj',
    :requirements => {:action => /\w*/} 

  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id', 
    :controller => 'proj',
    :requirements => {:action => /\w*/} 

  map.connect "*anything",
   :controller => "application",
   :action => "index",
   :unresolvable => 'true'  

This is what I want to see in params[:id] :  "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000397" 

This is the string I pass in the request  :  "http%3A%2F%2Fpurl%2Eobolibrary%2Eorg%2Fobo%2FHAO_0000397" , I'm literally just pasting that it to the FF URL (along with the controller/actions, which get detected fine in development).

If I remove all the %2F characters from the string above, I get the expected result in production.  If I don't I get :unresolvable => 'true' ... but only in production.  

My guess it's something to do with passenger/rewrite, but I really have no clue.