mod_rewrite/5432: Rewrite with redirect ignore parameters to path segments.

[Gunnar Ronning <gu...@candleweb.no>]

>Number:         5432
>Category:       mod_rewrite
>Synopsis:       Rewrite with redirect ignore parameters to path segments.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec  7 02:30:01 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     gunnar@candleweb.no
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.9
>Environment:
Solaris 2.7. gcc 2.8.2.
>Description:
I'm using Apache 1.3.9 and mod_rewrite with a servlet engine(ATG Dynamo 3.5). 
The servlet engine generates session ids as parameters to HTTP path segments
(as specified in rfc-2396), see the example for how the URLs look like. The session id parameter is 
stripped when we do a redirect(and we do ofcourse loose the associated user 
session). This is not a problem if we use mod_rewrite without redirecting and
query parameters are also part of the redirect.

Here is the relevant extract from httpd.conf :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/pubs/somesite/(.*$) /$1 [R]
>How-To-Repeat:
http://prodtest.somesite.de/pubs/somesite/template/;$sessionid$3QJML0YAAAAADQFIAHWCFEQ
>Fix:
I think the mod_rewrite module should keep path segment parameters when it
does a redirect. I haven't looked into the source code to have any specific 
suggestion on fixes in the code.
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