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authorNick Kew <niq@apache.org>2009-08-27 10:43:32 +0200
committerNick Kew <niq@apache.org>2009-08-27 10:43:32 +0200
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parentmod_headers: generalise the envclause to support conditional (diff)
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Document limitation to ProxyPassMatch directive.
This is a valid bug report PR 46665, which I'm marking as WONTFIX but which needs documenting for what it is. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@808321 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
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+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
@@ -958,7 +958,12 @@ expressions</description>
<p>will cause a local request for
<code>http://example.com/foo/bar.gif</code> to be internally converted
into a proxy request to <code>http://backend.example.com/foo/bar.gif</code>.</p>
-
+ <note><title>Note</title>
+ The URL argument must be parsable as a URL <em>before</em> regexp
+ substitutions (as well as after). This limits the matches you can use.
+ See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi">PR 46665</a>
+ for details and workaround ideas.
+ </note>
<p>The <code>!</code> directive is useful in situations where you don't want
to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.</p>
</usage>