From dce0f4bc54557f8f427dcd899d032563121d5722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Covener
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:40:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] move B=xx example to the bottom
show example with quoted flags and a space
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1908302 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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docs/manual/rewrite/flags.xml | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/flags.xml b/docs/manual/rewrite/flags.xml
index 3e2012153fa..7884d01e36d 100644
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/flags.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/flags.xml
@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ of how you might use them.
The [B] flag instructs RewriteRule to escape non-alphanumeric
characters before applying the transformation.
-In 2.4.26 and later, you can limit the escaping to specific characters
-in backreferences by listing them: [B=#?;]. Note: The space
-character can be used in the list of characters to escape, but it cannot be
-the last character in the list.
mod_rewrite has to unescape URLs before mapping them,
so backreferences are unescaped at the time they are applied.
@@ -109,6 +105,19 @@ when the backend may break if presented with an unescaped URL.
An alternative to this flag is using a RewriteCond to capture against %{THE_REQUEST} which will capture
strings in the encoded form.
+
+In 2.4.26 and later, you can limit the escaping to specific characters
+in backreferences by listing them: [B=#?;]. Note: The space
+character can be used in the list of characters to escape, but you must quote
+the entire third argument of RewriteRule
+and the space must not be the last character in the list.
+
+
+# Escape spaces and question marks.
+RewriteRule "^search/(.*)$" "/search.php?term=$1" "[B= ?]"
+
+
+
BNP|backrefnoplus (don't escape space to +)
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2.47.3