From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:15:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Put the rewrite flags into alphabetic order.
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Put the rewrite flags into alphabetic order.


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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en
index cd52baccd4e..c8ab8569433 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en
@@ -1385,33 +1385,44 @@ When using the NOT character
       following flags: </p>
 
       <ul>
+        <li>'<strong><code>chain|C</code></strong>'
+        (<strong>c</strong>hained with next rule)<br />
+         This flag chains the current rule with the next rule
+        (which itself can be chained with the following rule,
+        <em>etc.</em>). This has the following effect: if a rule
+        matches, then processing continues as usual, <em>i.e.</em>,
+        the flag has no effect. If the rule does
+        <strong>not</strong> match, then all following chained
+        rules are skipped. For instance, use it to remove the
+        ``<code>.www</code>'' part inside a per-directory rule set
+        when you let an external redirect happen (where the
+        ``<code>.www</code>'' part should not to occur!).</li>
+
         <li>
-          '<strong><code>redirect|R</code>
-          [=<em>code</em>]</strong>' (force <a id="redirect" name="redirect"><strong>r</strong>edirect</a>)<br />
-           Prefix <em>Substitution</em> with
-          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code> (which makes the
-          new URL a URI) to force a external redirection. If no
-          <em>code</em> is given a HTTP response of 302 (MOVED
-          TEMPORARILY) is used. If you want to use other response
-          codes in the range 300-400 just specify them as a number
-          or use one of the following symbolic names:
-          <code>temp</code> (default), <code>permanent</code>,
-          <code>seeother</code>. Use it for rules which should
-          canonicalize the URL and give it back to the client,
-          <em>e.g.</em>, translate ``<code>/~</code>'' into
-          ``<code>/u/</code>'' or always append a slash to
-          <code>/u/</code><em>user</em>, etc.<br />
-           
+		'<strong><code>cookie|CO=</code></strong><em>NAME</em>:<em>VAL</em>:<em>domain</em>[:<em>lifetime</em>[:<em>path</em>]]'
+        (set <strong>co</strong>okie)<br />
+        This sets a cookie on the client's browser.  The cookie's name
+        is specified by <em>NAME</em> and the value is
+        <em>VAL</em>. The <em>domain</em> field is the domain of the
+        cookie, such as '.apache.org',the optional <em>lifetime</em>
+	is the lifetime of the cookie in minutes, and the optional 
+	<em>path</em> is the path of the cookie</li>
 
-          <p><strong>Note:</strong> When you use this flag, make
-          sure that the substitution field is a valid URL! If not,
-          you are redirecting to an invalid location! And remember
-          that this flag itself only prefixes the URL with
-          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code>, rewriting
-          continues. Usually you also want to stop and do the
-          redirection immediately. To stop the rewriting you also
-          have to provide the 'L' flag.</p>
-        </li>
+        <li>
+        '<strong><code>env|E=</code></strong><em>VAR</em>:<em>VAL</em>'
+        (set <strong>e</strong>nvironment variable)<br />
+         This forces an environment variable named <em>VAR</em> to
+        be set to the value <em>VAL</em>, where <em>VAL</em> can
+        contain regexp backreferences <code>$N</code> and
+        <code>%N</code> which will be expanded. You can use this
+        flag more than once to set more than one variable. The
+        variables can be later dereferenced in many situations, but
+        usually from within XSSI (via <code>&lt;!--#echo
+        var="VAR"--&gt;</code>) or CGI (<em>e.g.</em>
+        <code>$ENV{'VAR'}</code>). Additionally you can dereference
+        it in a following RewriteCond pattern via
+        <code>%{ENV:VAR}</code>. Use this to strip but remember
+        information from URLs.</li>
 
         <li>'<strong><code>forbidden|F</code></strong>' (force URL
         to be <strong>f</strong>orbidden)<br />
@@ -1427,32 +1438,7 @@ When using the NOT character
         immediately sends back a HTTP response of 410 (GONE). Use
         this flag to mark pages which no longer exist as gone.</li>
 
-        <li>
-          '<strong><code>proxy|P</code></strong>' (force
-          <strong>p</strong>roxy)<br />
-           This flag forces the substitution part to be internally
-          forced as a proxy request and immediately (<em>i.e.</em>,
-          rewriting rule processing stops here) put through the <a href="mod_proxy.html">proxy module</a>. You have to make
-          sure that the substitution string is a valid URI
-          (<em>e.g.</em>, typically starting with
-          <code>http://</code><em>hostname</em>) which can be
-          handled by the Apache proxy module. If not you get an
-          error from the proxy module. Use this flag to achieve a
-          more powerful implementation of the <a href="mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a> directive,
-          to map some remote stuff into the namespace of the local
-          server. 
-
-          <p>Notice: To use this functionality make sure you have
-          the proxy module compiled into your Apache server
-          program. If you don't know please check whether
-          <code>mod_proxy.c</code> is part of the ``<code>httpd
-          -l</code>'' output. If yes, this functionality is
-          available to mod_rewrite. If not, then you first have to
-          rebuild the ``<code>httpd</code>'' program with mod_proxy
-          enabled.</p>
-        </li>
-
-        <li>'<strong><code>last|L</code></strong>'
+       <li>'<strong><code>last|L</code></strong>'
         (<strong>l</strong>ast rule)<br />
          Stop the rewriting process here and don't apply any more
         rewriting rules. This corresponds to the Perl
@@ -1475,29 +1461,6 @@ When using the NOT character
          <strong>But be careful not to create an infinite
         loop!</strong></li>
 
-        <li>'<strong><code>chain|C</code></strong>'
-        (<strong>c</strong>hained with next rule)<br />
-         This flag chains the current rule with the next rule
-        (which itself can be chained with the following rule,
-        <em>etc.</em>). This has the following effect: if a rule
-        matches, then processing continues as usual, <em>i.e.</em>,
-        the flag has no effect. If the rule does
-        <strong>not</strong> match, then all following chained
-        rules are skipped. For instance, use it to remove the
-        ``<code>.www</code>'' part inside a per-directory rule set
-        when you let an external redirect happen (where the
-        ``<code>.www</code>'' part should not to occur!).</li>
-
-        <li>
-        '<strong><code>type|T</code></strong>=<em>MIME-type</em>'
-        (force MIME <strong>t</strong>ype)<br />
-         Force the MIME-type of the target file to be
-        <em>MIME-type</em>. For instance, this can be used to
-        simulate the <code>mod_alias</code> directive
-        <code>ScriptAlias</code> which internally forces all files
-        inside the mapped directory to have a MIME type of
-        ``<code>application/x-httpd-cgi</code>''.</li>
-
         <li>
           '<strong><code>nosubreq|NS</code></strong>' (used only if
           <strong>n</strong>o internal
@@ -1520,38 +1483,29 @@ When using the NOT character
           sub-requests. In these cases, use this flag.</p>
         </li>
 
-        <li>'<strong><code>nocase|NC</code></strong>'
-        (<strong>n</strong>o <strong>c</strong>ase)<br />
-         This makes the <em>Pattern</em> case-insensitive,
-        <em>i.e.</em>, there is no difference between 'A-Z' and
-        'a-z' when <em>Pattern</em> is matched against the current
-        URL.</li>
-
-        <li>'<strong><code>qsappend|QSA</code></strong>'
-        (<strong>q</strong>uery <strong>s</strong>tring
-        <strong>a</strong>ppend)<br />
-         This flag forces the rewriting engine to append a query
-        string part in the substitution string to the existing one
-        instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more
-        data to the query string via a rewrite rule.</li>
-
         <li>
-          '<strong><code>noescape|NE</code></strong>'
-          (<strong>n</strong>o URI <strong>e</strong>scaping of
-          output)<br />
-           This flag keeps mod_rewrite from applying the usual URI
-          escaping rules to the result of a rewrite. Ordinarily,
-          special characters (such as '%', '$', ';', and so on)
-          will be escaped into their hexcode equivalents ('%25',
-          '%24', and '%3B', respectively); this flag prevents this
-          from being done. This allows percent symbols to appear in
-          the output, as in 
-<div class="example"><p><code>
-    RewriteRule /foo/(.*) /bar?arg=P1\%3d$1 [R,NE]
-</code></p></div>
+          '<strong><code>proxy|P</code></strong>' (force
+          <strong>p</strong>roxy)<br />
+           This flag forces the substitution part to be internally
+          forced as a proxy request and immediately (<em>i.e.</em>,
+          rewriting rule processing stops here) put through the <a href="mod_proxy.html">proxy module</a>. You have to make
+          sure that the substitution string is a valid URI
+          (<em>e.g.</em>, typically starting with
+          <code>http://</code><em>hostname</em>) which can be
+          handled by the Apache proxy module. If not you get an
+          error from the proxy module. Use this flag to achieve a
+          more powerful implementation of the <a href="mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a> directive,
+          to map some remote stuff into the namespace of the local
+          server. 
 
-          which would turn '<code>/foo/zed</code>' into a safe
-          request for '<code>/bar?arg=P1=zed</code>'. 
+          <p>Notice: To use this functionality make sure you have
+          the proxy module compiled into your Apache server
+          program. If you don't know please check whether
+          <code>mod_proxy.c</code> is part of the ``<code>httpd
+          -l</code>'' output. If yes, this functionality is
+          available to mod_rewrite. If not, then you first have to
+          rebuild the ``<code>httpd</code>'' program with mod_proxy
+          enabled.</p>
         </li>
 
         <li>
@@ -1591,6 +1545,41 @@ When using the NOT character
           <code>mod_rewrite</code>..</p>
         </li>
 
+        <li>'<strong><code>qsappend|QSA</code></strong>'
+        (<strong>q</strong>uery <strong>s</strong>tring
+        <strong>a</strong>ppend)<br />
+         This flag forces the rewriting engine to append a query
+        string part in the substitution string to the existing one
+        instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more
+        data to the query string via a rewrite rule.</li>
+
+         <li>'<strong><code>redirect|R</code>
+          [=<em>code</em>]</strong>' (force <a id="redirect" name="redirect"><strong>r</strong>edirect</a>)<br />
+           Prefix <em>Substitution</em> with
+          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code> (which makes the
+          new URL a URI) to force a external redirection. If no
+          <em>code</em> is given a HTTP response of 302 (MOVED
+          TEMPORARILY) is used. If you want to use other response
+          codes in the range 300-400 just specify them as a number
+          or use one of the following symbolic names:
+          <code>temp</code> (default), <code>permanent</code>,
+          <code>seeother</code>. Use it for rules which should
+          canonicalize the URL and give it back to the client,
+          <em>e.g.</em>, translate ``<code>/~</code>'' into
+          ``<code>/u/</code>'' or always append a slash to
+          <code>/u/</code><em>user</em>, etc.<br />
+           
+
+          <p><strong>Note:</strong> When you use this flag, make
+          sure that the substitution field is a valid URL! If not,
+          you are redirecting to an invalid location! And remember
+          that this flag itself only prefixes the URL with
+          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code>, rewriting
+          continues. Usually you also want to stop and do the
+          redirection immediately. To stop the rewriting you also
+          have to provide the 'L' flag.</p>
+        </li>
+
         <li>'<strong><code>skip|S</code></strong>=<em>num</em>'
         (<strong>s</strong>kip next rule(s))<br />
          This flag forces the rewriting engine to skip the next
@@ -1602,31 +1591,19 @@ When using the NOT character
         'chain|C' flag!)</li>
 
         <li>
-        '<strong><code>env|E=</code></strong><em>VAR</em>:<em>VAL</em>'
-        (set <strong>e</strong>nvironment variable)<br />
-         This forces an environment variable named <em>VAR</em> to
-        be set to the value <em>VAL</em>, where <em>VAL</em> can
-        contain regexp backreferences <code>$N</code> and
-        <code>%N</code> which will be expanded. You can use this
-        flag more than once to set more than one variable. The
-        variables can be later dereferenced in many situations, but
-        usually from within XSSI (via <code>&lt;!--#echo
-        var="VAR"--&gt;</code>) or CGI (<em>e.g.</em>
-        <code>$ENV{'VAR'}</code>). Additionally you can dereference
-        it in a following RewriteCond pattern via
-        <code>%{ENV:VAR}</code>. Use this to strip but remember
-        information from URLs.</li>
+        '<strong><code>type|T</code></strong>=<em>MIME-type</em>'
+        (force MIME <strong>t</strong>ype)<br />
+         Force the MIME-type of the target file to be
+        <em>MIME-type</em>. For instance, this can be used to
+        setup the content-type based on some conditions.
+        For example, the following snippet allows <code>.php</code> files to
+        be <em>displayed</em> by <code>mod_php</code> if they are called with
+        the <code>.phps</code> extension:
+        <div class="example"><p><code>
+            RewriteRule ^(.+\.php)s$ $1 [T=application/x-httpd-php-source]
+        </code></p></div>
+        </li>
 
-        <li>
-		'<strong><code>cookie|CO=</code></strong><em>NAME</em>:<em>VAL</em>:<em>domain</em>[:<em>lifetime</em>[:<em>path</em>]]'
-        (set <strong>co</strong>okie)<br />
-        This sets a cookie on the client's browser.  The cookie's name
-        is specified by <em>NAME</em> and the value is
-        <em>VAL</em>. The <em>domain</em> field is the domain of the
-        cookie, such as '.apache.org',the optional <em>lifetime</em>
-	is the lifetime of the cookie in minutes, and the optional 
-	<em>path</em> is the path of the cookie</li>
- 
       </ul>
 
 <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3> Never forget that <em>Pattern</em> is
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index e106a0cefea..f937c22daa0 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -1405,34 +1405,44 @@ When using the NOT character
       following flags: </p>
 
       <ul>
+        <li>'<strong><code>chain|C</code></strong>'
+        (<strong>c</strong>hained with next rule)<br />
+         This flag chains the current rule with the next rule
+        (which itself can be chained with the following rule,
+        <em>etc.</em>). This has the following effect: if a rule
+        matches, then processing continues as usual, <em>i.e.</em>,
+        the flag has no effect. If the rule does
+        <strong>not</strong> match, then all following chained
+        rules are skipped. For instance, use it to remove the
+        ``<code>.www</code>'' part inside a per-directory rule set
+        when you let an external redirect happen (where the
+        ``<code>.www</code>'' part should not to occur!).</li>
+
         <li>
-          '<strong><code>redirect|R</code>
-          [=<em>code</em>]</strong>' (force <a id="redirect"
-          name="redirect"><strong>r</strong>edirect</a>)<br />
-           Prefix <em>Substitution</em> with
-          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code> (which makes the
-          new URL a URI) to force a external redirection. If no
-          <em>code</em> is given a HTTP response of 302 (MOVED
-          TEMPORARILY) is used. If you want to use other response
-          codes in the range 300-400 just specify them as a number
-          or use one of the following symbolic names:
-          <code>temp</code> (default), <code>permanent</code>,
-          <code>seeother</code>. Use it for rules which should
-          canonicalize the URL and give it back to the client,
-          <em>e.g.</em>, translate ``<code>/~</code>'' into
-          ``<code>/u/</code>'' or always append a slash to
-          <code>/u/</code><em>user</em>, etc.<br />
-           
+		'<strong><code>cookie|CO=</code></strong><em>NAME</em>:<em>VAL</em>:<em>domain</em>[:<em>lifetime</em>[:<em>path</em>]]'
+        (set <strong>co</strong>okie)<br />
+        This sets a cookie on the client's browser.  The cookie's name
+        is specified by <em>NAME</em> and the value is
+        <em>VAL</em>. The <em>domain</em> field is the domain of the
+        cookie, such as '.apache.org',the optional <em>lifetime</em>
+	is the lifetime of the cookie in minutes, and the optional 
+	<em>path</em> is the path of the cookie</li>
 
-          <p><strong>Note:</strong> When you use this flag, make
-          sure that the substitution field is a valid URL! If not,
-          you are redirecting to an invalid location! And remember
-          that this flag itself only prefixes the URL with
-          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code>, rewriting
-          continues. Usually you also want to stop and do the
-          redirection immediately. To stop the rewriting you also
-          have to provide the 'L' flag.</p>
-        </li>
+        <li>
+        '<strong><code>env|E=</code></strong><em>VAR</em>:<em>VAL</em>'
+        (set <strong>e</strong>nvironment variable)<br />
+         This forces an environment variable named <em>VAR</em> to
+        be set to the value <em>VAL</em>, where <em>VAL</em> can
+        contain regexp backreferences <code>$N</code> and
+        <code>%N</code> which will be expanded. You can use this
+        flag more than once to set more than one variable. The
+        variables can be later dereferenced in many situations, but
+        usually from within XSSI (via <code>&lt;!--#echo
+        var="VAR"--&gt;</code>) or CGI (<em>e.g.</em>
+        <code>$ENV{'VAR'}</code>). Additionally you can dereference
+        it in a following RewriteCond pattern via
+        <code>%{ENV:VAR}</code>. Use this to strip but remember
+        information from URLs.</li>
 
         <li>'<strong><code>forbidden|F</code></strong>' (force URL
         to be <strong>f</strong>orbidden)<br />
@@ -1448,34 +1458,7 @@ When using the NOT character
         immediately sends back a HTTP response of 410 (GONE). Use
         this flag to mark pages which no longer exist as gone.</li>
 
-        <li>
-          '<strong><code>proxy|P</code></strong>' (force
-          <strong>p</strong>roxy)<br />
-           This flag forces the substitution part to be internally
-          forced as a proxy request and immediately (<em>i.e.</em>,
-          rewriting rule processing stops here) put through the <a
-          href="mod_proxy.html">proxy module</a>. You have to make
-          sure that the substitution string is a valid URI
-          (<em>e.g.</em>, typically starting with
-          <code>http://</code><em>hostname</em>) which can be
-          handled by the Apache proxy module. If not you get an
-          error from the proxy module. Use this flag to achieve a
-          more powerful implementation of the <a
-          href="mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a> directive,
-          to map some remote stuff into the namespace of the local
-          server. 
-
-          <p>Notice: To use this functionality make sure you have
-          the proxy module compiled into your Apache server
-          program. If you don't know please check whether
-          <code>mod_proxy.c</code> is part of the ``<code>httpd
-          -l</code>'' output. If yes, this functionality is
-          available to mod_rewrite. If not, then you first have to
-          rebuild the ``<code>httpd</code>'' program with mod_proxy
-          enabled.</p>
-        </li>
-
-        <li>'<strong><code>last|L</code></strong>'
+       <li>'<strong><code>last|L</code></strong>'
         (<strong>l</strong>ast rule)<br />
          Stop the rewriting process here and don't apply any more
         rewriting rules. This corresponds to the Perl
@@ -1498,29 +1481,6 @@ When using the NOT character
          <strong>But be careful not to create an infinite
         loop!</strong></li>
 
-        <li>'<strong><code>chain|C</code></strong>'
-        (<strong>c</strong>hained with next rule)<br />
-         This flag chains the current rule with the next rule
-        (which itself can be chained with the following rule,
-        <em>etc.</em>). This has the following effect: if a rule
-        matches, then processing continues as usual, <em>i.e.</em>,
-        the flag has no effect. If the rule does
-        <strong>not</strong> match, then all following chained
-        rules are skipped. For instance, use it to remove the
-        ``<code>.www</code>'' part inside a per-directory rule set
-        when you let an external redirect happen (where the
-        ``<code>.www</code>'' part should not to occur!).</li>
-
-        <li>
-        '<strong><code>type|T</code></strong>=<em>MIME-type</em>'
-        (force MIME <strong>t</strong>ype)<br />
-         Force the MIME-type of the target file to be
-        <em>MIME-type</em>. For instance, this can be used to
-        simulate the <code>mod_alias</code> directive
-        <code>ScriptAlias</code> which internally forces all files
-        inside the mapped directory to have a MIME type of
-        ``<code>application/x-httpd-cgi</code>''.</li>
-
         <li>
           '<strong><code>nosubreq|NS</code></strong>' (used only if
           <strong>n</strong>o internal
@@ -1543,38 +1503,31 @@ When using the NOT character
           sub-requests. In these cases, use this flag.</p>
         </li>
 
-        <li>'<strong><code>nocase|NC</code></strong>'
-        (<strong>n</strong>o <strong>c</strong>ase)<br />
-         This makes the <em>Pattern</em> case-insensitive,
-        <em>i.e.</em>, there is no difference between 'A-Z' and
-        'a-z' when <em>Pattern</em> is matched against the current
-        URL.</li>
-
-        <li>'<strong><code>qsappend|QSA</code></strong>'
-        (<strong>q</strong>uery <strong>s</strong>tring
-        <strong>a</strong>ppend)<br />
-         This flag forces the rewriting engine to append a query
-        string part in the substitution string to the existing one
-        instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more
-        data to the query string via a rewrite rule.</li>
-
         <li>
-          '<strong><code>noescape|NE</code></strong>'
-          (<strong>n</strong>o URI <strong>e</strong>scaping of
-          output)<br />
-           This flag keeps mod_rewrite from applying the usual URI
-          escaping rules to the result of a rewrite. Ordinarily,
-          special characters (such as '%', '$', ';', and so on)
-          will be escaped into their hexcode equivalents ('%25',
-          '%24', and '%3B', respectively); this flag prevents this
-          from being done. This allows percent symbols to appear in
-          the output, as in 
-<example>
-    RewriteRule /foo/(.*) /bar?arg=P1\%3d$1 [R,NE]
-</example>
+          '<strong><code>proxy|P</code></strong>' (force
+          <strong>p</strong>roxy)<br />
+           This flag forces the substitution part to be internally
+          forced as a proxy request and immediately (<em>i.e.</em>,
+          rewriting rule processing stops here) put through the <a
+          href="mod_proxy.html">proxy module</a>. You have to make
+          sure that the substitution string is a valid URI
+          (<em>e.g.</em>, typically starting with
+          <code>http://</code><em>hostname</em>) which can be
+          handled by the Apache proxy module. If not you get an
+          error from the proxy module. Use this flag to achieve a
+          more powerful implementation of the <a
+          href="mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a> directive,
+          to map some remote stuff into the namespace of the local
+          server. 
 
-          which would turn '<code>/foo/zed</code>' into a safe
-          request for '<code>/bar?arg=P1=zed</code>'. 
+          <p>Notice: To use this functionality make sure you have
+          the proxy module compiled into your Apache server
+          program. If you don't know please check whether
+          <code>mod_proxy.c</code> is part of the ``<code>httpd
+          -l</code>'' output. If yes, this functionality is
+          available to mod_rewrite. If not, then you first have to
+          rebuild the ``<code>httpd</code>'' program with mod_proxy
+          enabled.</p>
         </li>
 
         <li>
@@ -1614,6 +1567,42 @@ When using the NOT character
           <code>mod_rewrite</code>..</p>
         </li>
 
+        <li>'<strong><code>qsappend|QSA</code></strong>'
+        (<strong>q</strong>uery <strong>s</strong>tring
+        <strong>a</strong>ppend)<br />
+         This flag forces the rewriting engine to append a query
+        string part in the substitution string to the existing one
+        instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more
+        data to the query string via a rewrite rule.</li>
+
+         <li>'<strong><code>redirect|R</code>
+          [=<em>code</em>]</strong>' (force <a id="redirect"
+          name="redirect"><strong>r</strong>edirect</a>)<br />
+           Prefix <em>Substitution</em> with
+          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code> (which makes the
+          new URL a URI) to force a external redirection. If no
+          <em>code</em> is given a HTTP response of 302 (MOVED
+          TEMPORARILY) is used. If you want to use other response
+          codes in the range 300-400 just specify them as a number
+          or use one of the following symbolic names:
+          <code>temp</code> (default), <code>permanent</code>,
+          <code>seeother</code>. Use it for rules which should
+          canonicalize the URL and give it back to the client,
+          <em>e.g.</em>, translate ``<code>/~</code>'' into
+          ``<code>/u/</code>'' or always append a slash to
+          <code>/u/</code><em>user</em>, etc.<br />
+           
+
+          <p><strong>Note:</strong> When you use this flag, make
+          sure that the substitution field is a valid URL! If not,
+          you are redirecting to an invalid location! And remember
+          that this flag itself only prefixes the URL with
+          <code>http://thishost[:thisport]/</code>, rewriting
+          continues. Usually you also want to stop and do the
+          redirection immediately. To stop the rewriting you also
+          have to provide the 'L' flag.</p>
+        </li>
+
         <li>'<strong><code>skip|S</code></strong>=<em>num</em>'
         (<strong>s</strong>kip next rule(s))<br />
          This flag forces the rewriting engine to skip the next
@@ -1625,31 +1614,19 @@ When using the NOT character
         'chain|C' flag!)</li>
 
         <li>
-        '<strong><code>env|E=</code></strong><em>VAR</em>:<em>VAL</em>'
-        (set <strong>e</strong>nvironment variable)<br />
-         This forces an environment variable named <em>VAR</em> to
-        be set to the value <em>VAL</em>, where <em>VAL</em> can
-        contain regexp backreferences <code>$N</code> and
-        <code>%N</code> which will be expanded. You can use this
-        flag more than once to set more than one variable. The
-        variables can be later dereferenced in many situations, but
-        usually from within XSSI (via <code>&lt;!--#echo
-        var="VAR"--&gt;</code>) or CGI (<em>e.g.</em>
-        <code>$ENV{'VAR'}</code>). Additionally you can dereference
-        it in a following RewriteCond pattern via
-        <code>%{ENV:VAR}</code>. Use this to strip but remember
-        information from URLs.</li>
+        '<strong><code>type|T</code></strong>=<em>MIME-type</em>'
+        (force MIME <strong>t</strong>ype)<br />
+         Force the MIME-type of the target file to be
+        <em>MIME-type</em>. For instance, this can be used to
+        setup the content-type based on some conditions.
+        For example, the following snippet allows <code>.php</code> files to
+        be <em>displayed</em> by <code>mod_php</code> if they are called with
+        the <code>.phps</code> extension:
+        <example>
+            RewriteRule ^(.+\.php)s$ $1 [T=application/x-httpd-php-source]
+        </example>
+        </li>
 
-        <li>
-		'<strong><code>cookie|CO=</code></strong><em>NAME</em>:<em>VAL</em>:<em>domain</em>[:<em>lifetime</em>[:<em>path</em>]]'
-        (set <strong>co</strong>okie)<br />
-        This sets a cookie on the client's browser.  The cookie's name
-        is specified by <em>NAME</em> and the value is
-        <em>VAL</em>. The <em>domain</em> field is the domain of the
-        cookie, such as '.apache.org',the optional <em>lifetime</em>
-	is the lifetime of the cookie in minutes, and the optional 
-	<em>path</em> is the path of the cookie</li>
- 
       </ul>
 
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