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From: Anthony Ananich <anton.ananich@inpun.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:26:24 +0300
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Subject: Re: _session + vhost + rewrites
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I think I've found an answer. It seems that while using vhost
/_session handler is available in the root of vhost independent on if
there are any rewrite rules or not.

I was not able to find any documentation about that, so I'm not sure
if it is bug or feature :)

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org> wrote:
> Hm, not without a code change, I think. The secure rewrites setting is
> to prevent a rewrite jumping between databases. At first glance it
> does seem an overreach to block a rewrite to _session (and presumably
> anything else at the top level).
>
> B.
>
> On 20 March 2013 12:13, Anthony Ananich <anton.ananich@inpun.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to make _session handler accessible via url like
>> http://mysite.com/_session while using rewrite rules. I get the
>> following error:
>> {"error":"insecure_rewrite_rule","reason":"too many ../.. segments"}
>>
>> I found that it could be fixed with adding this to an ini file:
>> [httpd]
>> secure_rewrites = false
>>
>> Is there a way to allow _session without disabling secure_rewrites?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony