The following reply was made to PR mod_rewrite/3140; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Klaus Johannes Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: apache-bugdb@apache.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: mod_rewrite/3140: Substitution does not support some schemes Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:01:04 CET Synopsis: Substitution does not support some schemes State: open : Please give an example of a URL you would expect to trigger : the rewrite rule: : : RewriteEngine On : RewriteRule ^/mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [R,L] http://localhost/mail (probably with some RewriteCond in the configuration but for reproducing the problem this is not required) : What would you expect it to do, and what does it do instead? I would expect a redirect, i.e. Status 302 and Location: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] headers, to be sent as for equivalent RewriteRules with other schemas, instead mod_rewrite searches for ${DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and not finding that document sends a 404 Not Found. RewriteRule ^/mail http://www.domain.com/redirect.pl?url=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] works okay. hook_uri2file has a hardcoded list of schemas (http://, https://, gopher://, ftp://), all other schemas are interpreted as local files (including common ones like file:, news:, mailto: and ldap: but also any other schema). Klaus Johannes Rusch -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/
