mod_rewrite/7706: ErrorDocument special environment variables don't seem to be available to mod_rewrite

[David Sharnoff <ap...@trust.idiom.com>]

>Number:         7706
>Category:       mod_rewrite
>Synopsis:       ErrorDocument special environment variables don't seem to be available to mod_rewrite
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 11 15:30:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     apache@trust.idiom.com
>Release:        1.3.14
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
FreeBSD main.bepress.com 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #3: Sat Jan 27 23:44:48 PST 2001     muir@main.bepress.com:/main/fbsd/src/sys/compile/MAIN  i386
>Description:
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi/errordoc.cgi
RewriteRule /cgi/errordoc.cgi http://dave.bepress.com:1101/cgi/errordoc.cgi/<%{REDIRECT_URL}> [QSA,P]

I was hoping to use ErrorDocument for a large portion of my site -
static pages served when they're there, use a proxy to pull from
another server when things aren't there.

Unfortunantly, it appears that mod_rewrite does not have access to
the environment variables that ErrorDocument creates for inteligent
handling of errors.
>How-To-Repeat:
Turn on mod_rewrite.
Define an error document.
Try to use the REDIRECT_* variables in the rewrite rule.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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