How to pass %2F in laravel 5 url with addition get parrameters

Users can search my site. Sometimes they might use a search term containing a forward slash (search with / slash) which when submitted by the form turns into %2F in the url.

eg. http://ift.tt/2k3GxfU

I have used the answer from here which works great to give me the right page and not send me to a 404.

My problem now is I use pagination on the page and custom filters which are both passed as get vars in the url and when accessing the GET var it's empty.

eg. http://ift.tt/2k3I45u

This is my current route

$this->get('search/{search_term}', ['uses' => 'SearchController@search'])
->where('search_term', '(.*(?:%2F:)?.*)');

Not sure what do from here

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