Sorry, about the extraneous personal notes. The I love you was an
exaggeration of thank you. I kid around. I don't know that people
understand that.
I had already started drinking in celebration of finishing my project.
I should never go near a computer when I'm drinking. I also type stuff I
regret.
Thank you again.
But, I have to know how does
RewriteCond ${REMOTE_USER} .
Is the . for any character? Why does it evaluate correctly when undefined
and !="" doesn't?
Michele
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Morris [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Making mod_auth_digest mysql
> I'm thinking about adding a -e flag for environment
> variable does not exist to httpd on my server.
> It would return true if the variable exists
> or false, otherwise. Is there a way to already
> do this?
For your purpose, you can use:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} !.
or as appropriate:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} .
That will check for any non-empty value
by matching at least any single character.
> It looks like: RewriteCond ${REMOTE_USER} !="" always
> evaluates to true if REMOTE_USER does not exist.
> Am I wrong?
That's correct, if it doesn't exist, it's not
the empty string. What's in that bucket on your
desk? "There is no bucket" is a different answer
than "the bucket is empty". Since you apparently
understand SQL, let me explain that by saying it's
the same thing as the difference between trying
to get the value of a column which doesn't exist,
which is an outright error, versus a column with
the value 0, versus a text column with empty
text (""), versus an unknown value, represented
by NULL. Not existing isn't the same thing as
existing and being empty.
--
Ray B. Morris
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On 02/05/2009 10:43:57 PM, Michele Waldman wrote:
> RewriteCond has flags -f -d ...
> But not -e for exists.
> It looks like:
> RewriteCond ${REMOTE_USER} !="" always evaluates to true if
> REMOTE_USER does
> not exist. Am I wrong?
> I'm thinking about adding a -e flag for environment variable does not
> exist
> to httpd on my server. It would return true if the variable exists
> or
> false, otherwise.
> Is there a way to already do this?
> Thoughts?
>
> Michele
>
>
>
