URL Rewritting works perfect in FF but not in IE 6

Hi,
I have the following htaccess code to rewrite nice urls to urls with variables to use for a script:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule  ^tags/(.*)$ ?c=$1 [L]

PHP:

Everything works fine in FF but not in IE 6. My goal is to have http://mysite.com/tags/category1 rewritten on the server to http://mysite.com/c=category1 that I can catch it as a variable.

I tried something else and it works perfect in both browsers but it also displays the http://mysite.com/c=category1 in the browser which i want to avoid. This is the code that made it work:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^tags\/(.*) http://mysite.com/?c=$1  [QSA,L,R=301]

PHP:

Is there any way to get this working in FF and IE that the browser still shows http://mysite.com/tags/category1?
Any help would be AWESOME!... I spent the last 8 hours reading mod rewrite tutorials and trying all sorts of stuff so it would be cool if any pro could help me out.

 

Remove R=301 and you should be fine.

 

didn't help... i don't get it. it does work sometimes if i refresh the page several times. any other ideas what might be wrong with the variables or whatever?

 

I can tell you after I checked my own .htaccess tonight.
Try this:
RewriteRule ^tags\/(.*)$ http://mysite.com/?c=$1 [QSA,L]

(I added a $ and removed the 301)

Also I think the RewriteCond is somewhat redundant, since it will always apply.