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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:47:39 -0400
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From: Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Re: Ampersand extends to the left part of regexes
 with RewriteRule, RedirectMatch and SetEnvIf: is that expected?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote:
> Rich Bowen wrote:
>
>>> If I file an issue on Apache's Bugzilla, will this be considered a bug?
>>
>> Please do submit it, but perhaps as a documentation bug? I'll try to
>> remember to add a mention of this to the documentation, but a bugzilla
>> ticket will help us remember.
>
> Is this really an Apache docs issue? =A0It's down to the regexp library,
> so surely the correct documentation for httpd is a reference to PCRE
> (or Perl regexp) documentation?

Searching for this old thread, missed your followup niq.  httpd was
stepping in the way and treating & as an alias for \0/$0 (entire
match):

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=3Drevision&revision=3D904765

There was some confusion ITT that Rewrite and mod_alias directives
were behaving the same way that I think was cleared up elsewhere.

--=20
Eric Covener
covener@gmail.com

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