From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:23:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merge r1165114 from trunk:
X-Git-Tag: 2.2.21~33
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Merge r1165114 from trunk:

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



git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x@1165115 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 dcc7fea0080..fbe1aedc581 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -822,9 +822,10 @@ Result:
 
                   <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>