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| author | Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org> | 2024-01-29 15:24:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org> | 2024-01-29 15:24:31 +0100 |
| commit | 6f96e9e7208887730c2de9284063ab614bf71931 (patch) | |
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| parent | fill in empty descriptions from command_rec (diff) | |
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Clarifies advice around quoting regular expressions.
Submitted by: nisbet-hubbard <87453615+nisbet-hubbard@users.noreply.github.com>
Github: closes #379
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1915443 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml | 7 |
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8 b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8 index 44e73c8ad5..a8cac2d296 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8 +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8 @@ -1628,4 +1628,4 @@ if (typeof(prettyPrint) !== 'undefined') { prettyPrint(); } //--><!]]></script> -</body></html>
\ No newline at end of file +</body></html> diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml index 9f4200e3dc..160f3a8df9 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml @@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ URLs on the fly</description> sub-processing, external request redirection, or internal proxy throughput.</p> + <p>A regular expression only needs quoting if it contains unescaped space, + in which case single and double quotes are equivalent.</p> + <p>Further details, discussion, and examples, are provided in the <a href="../rewrite/">detailed mod_rewrite documentation</a>.</p> </summary> diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8 b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8 index 943dc789bd..ed4ad5125f 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8 +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8 @@ -365,4 +365,4 @@ if (typeof(prettyPrint) !== 'undefined') { prettyPrint(); } //--><!]]></script> -</body></html>
\ No newline at end of file +</body></html> diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml index 99c302f3a3..71eebf6f26 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml @@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ BrowserMatch MSIE !netscape are not separately evaluated in the subrequest due to the API phases <module>mod_setenvif</module> takes action in.</p> + <p>A regular expression only needs quoting when it contains space, + in which case single and double quotes are equivalent. Unlike + <module>mod_rewrite</module>, <module>mod_setenvif</module> strips every + other backslash when parsing the expression; thus <code>\\</code> + requires <code>\\\</code>, and <code>\\\</code> requires + <code>\\\\\</code>.</p> + </summary> <seealso><a href="../env.html">Environment Variables in Apache HTTP Server</a></seealso> |