Hi, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:10:41PM +0100, Pedro Mata-Mouros Fonseca wrote: > Greetings, > > Sorry for the "double" posting, let me just try to simplify the > exposition of the problem. I'm trying to rewrite a URI using regular > expression placeholders, but I'm having a problem that when a > placeholder doesn't match anything it still gets replaced in the > destination with a '1'. This is the configuration directive (basically > if the URI is rss2, rewrite to RSS2; but if it is rss only, rewrite to > RSS): > > reqrep ^([^\ ]*)\ /rss(2*)(.*) \1\ /Endpoint/RSS\2\3 > > Calling rss2 correctly rewrites the URI: > => /rss2?u=username correctly rewrites to /Endpoint/RSS2?u=username > > However calling rss (without the '2') triggers a wrong replacement: > => /rss?u=username incorrectly rewrites to /Endpoint/RSS1?u=username, > instead of /Endpoint/RSS?u=username > > This is the content of the log: > 10.134.15.124 - - [21/Aug/2009:12:08:33 +0100] "GET /Endpoint/RSS2? > u=username HTTP/1.1" 404 209 > 10.134.15.124 - - [21/Aug/2009:12:09:05 +0100] "GET /Endpoint/RSS1? > u=username HTTP/1.1" 404 209 > > Many thanks again.
For me it works well : GET /Endpoint/RSS?u=username HTTP/1.0 So it looks like a bug in the regex lib. My version was built with PCRE and with glibc's standard regex library. What OS/regex lib are you using ? A lot of those libs are buggy, and before I discovered PCRE, I had tried several alternatives with pretty unfortunate experiences ! Regards, Willy
