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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by André Malo <nd...@perlig.de> on 2011/05/02 07:57:53 UTC

Re: "RewriteRule ... /$1" considered harmful

* Stefan Fritsch wrote:

> My impression is that mapping to different URLs is by far the more
> frequent use case, but I may be wrong. A different idea would be
>
> - Create new directives RewriteToPath, RewriteToURL that don't do
> guessing. - Document clearly the problems that may be caused by the
> guessing behaviour of RewriteRule. Maybe even mark RewriteRule as
> deprecated in 2.4.

Why not flags to RewriteRule? like

RewriteRule ... /$1 [abs]

(or [rel]).

For compat reasons I'd keep the current behaviour without such a flag.

nd
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