Hi Christophe,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Christophe Jaillet
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've just noticed that 'RegexDefaultOptions' introduced in 2.4.30 was
> un-documented. While fixing it, I had a question.
>
> I'm puzzled by the 'EXTENDED' option. Does it have any impact?

Hm yes, my bad, I didn't check how AP_REG_EXTENDED was defined (and
indeed it's actually ignored).
While I find PCRE_EXTENDED very useful (i.e. ignore non-escaped
withespace in regexps, for better readability), if AP_REG_EXTENDED
were defined accordingly as of now (in trunk and 2.4.x) there could be
big surprises for users, given that it's used in several modules
(mod_proxy, mod_lua, ...) based of users' configurations.

So I propose that we don't document EXTENDED for RegexDefaultOptions
for now (and definitely never in 2.4.x), AP_REG_EXTENDED needs more
work in trunk before it becomes meaningful.

Thanks Christophe for noticing and trying to take care of this mess (mine).


Regards,
Yann.

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