From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:22:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: be explicit that REQUEST_URI is the path component only
X-Git-Tag: 2.3.15~301
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=474cdce9f2132f993624a17c3a9d478318f91a05;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git

be explicit that REQUEST_URI is the path component only
(like r->uri)


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1165114 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index 53de3b3e57f..80d35938890 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -490,9 +490,10 @@ RewriteRule ^index\.html$  newsite.html
 
                   <dt><code>REQUEST_URI</code></dt>
 
-                  <dd>The resource requested in the HTTP request
-                  line. (In the example above, this would be
-                  "/index.html".)</dd>
+                  <dd>The path component of the requested URI,
+                  such as "/index.html".  This notably excludes the
+                  query string which is available as as its own variable
+                  named <code>QUERY_STRING</code>.</dd>
 
                   <dt><code>REQUEST_FILENAME</code></dt>