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rbowen at rcbowen

Nov 2, 2009, 11:43 AM

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Rewrite flags

A while back I started a rewrite/flags.html doc that purported to give
examples for the various flag that can be used with mod_rewrite.

Straw poll - is this

1) a good idea
2) merely unnecessarily duplicate the contents of the reference doc,
drop it
3) the reference doc should simply send folks off to rewrite/
flags.html for further details and examples

I'm leaning towards 2 at the moment.

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noodlet at gmail

Nov 2, 2009, 1:19 PM

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Re: Rewrite flags [In reply to]

2009/11/2 Rich Bowen <rbowen[at]rcbowen.com>:
> A while back I started a rewrite/flags.html doc that purported to give
> examples for the various flag that can be used with mod_rewrite.
>
> Straw poll - is this
>
> 1) a good idea
> 2) merely unnecessarily duplicate the contents of the reference doc, drop it
> 3) the reference doc should simply send folks off to rewrite/flags.html for
> further details and examples
>
> I'm leaning towards 2 at the moment.

Perhaps 2) but give examples of usage for popular/confusing ones elsewhere?

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rbowen at rcbowen

Nov 2, 2009, 4:19 PM

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Re: Rewrite flags [In reply to]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 13:19 , Vincent Bray wrote:

> 2009/11/2 Rich Bowen <rbowen[at]rcbowen.com>:
>> A while back I started a rewrite/flags.html doc that purported to
>> give
>> examples for the various flag that can be used with mod_rewrite.
>>
>> Straw poll - is this
>>
>> 1) a good idea
>> 2) merely unnecessarily duplicate the contents of the reference
>> doc, drop it
>> 3) the reference doc should simply send folks off to rewrite/
>> flags.html for
>> further details and examples
>>
>> I'm leaning towards 2 at the moment.
>
> Perhaps 2) but give examples of usage for popular/confusing ones
> elsewhere?

Opinion seems split fairly evenly between #2 and #3 (via discussion at
ApacheCon) and I might be leaning back towards #3. Still not sure.
Probably won't get to this issue today anyways.

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mads at toftum

Nov 3, 2009, 1:43 AM

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Re: Rewrite flags [In reply to]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:19:35PM +0000, Vincent Bray wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Rich Bowen <rbowen[at]rcbowen.com>:
> > A while back I started a rewrite/flags.html doc that purported to give
> > examples for the various flag that can be used with mod_rewrite.
> >
> > Straw poll - is this
> >
> > 1) a good idea
> > 2) merely unnecessarily duplicate the contents of the reference doc, drop it
> > 3) the reference doc should simply send folks off to rewrite/flags.html for
> > further details and examples
> >
> > I'm leaning towards 2 at the moment.
>
> Perhaps 2) but give examples of usage for popular/confusing ones elsewhere?
>
+1 - I don't mind reference docs with good examples, but the opposite is
not a good thing.

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rbowen at rcbowen

Nov 20, 2009, 2:56 AM

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Re: Rewrite Flags [In reply to]

I haven't tested it with 2.3, but will do.

In 2.2, I tested it with all valid HTTP status codes, and it accepted
all of them.

On Nov 20, 2009, at 01:42 , Tero Lampiluoto wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think behaviour of R flag has changed at some point of 2.2.x,
> imho it earlier accepted only certain HTTP status codes.
>
> Does someone have more accurate information on this?
> Obviously some testing would solve this out as well... Because
> the version information should be mentioned to avoid unnecessary
> confusion as number of users have older versions provided e.g. by
> their distro.
>
> --
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> lamp
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Rich Bowen <rbowen[at]rcbowen.com>
> wrote:
>> Thanks. Applied r882171.
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:06 , Igor Galić wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> here's a small fix to the new rewrite guide's flags.xml:
>>> R= can be *any* (valid) HTTP response.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>>
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noodlet at gmail

Nov 20, 2009, 3:56 AM

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Re: Rewrite Flags [In reply to]

2009/11/20 Tero Lampiluoto <lampiluoto[at]gmail.com>:
> I think behaviour of R flag has changed at some point of 2.2.x,
> imho it earlier accepted only certain HTTP status codes.
>
> Does someone have more accurate information on this?

Here's the revision that introduced that change, from Jan '04

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=102321

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