[Bug 70066] Environment Variables in Apache httpd: Undocumented REQUEST_URI

[email protected] Thu, 28 May 2026 20:19:32 +0000
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https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D70066

--- Comment #3 from Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Rich Bowen from comment #1)
> Meanwhile I'm not really sure what your "by the way" section means but wo=
uld
> appreciate if separate issues would be tracked in separate tickets - it
> makes it much easier to ascertain when a ticket is actually resolved.
Fair enough, this is non-trivial indeed. That aside is now tracked in ticket
#70095.


(In reply to Rich Bowen from comment #2)
> Fixed in r1934599 (2.4) and r1934600 (trunk).
>=20
> Rather than duplicating the REQUEST_URI documentation on env.html, we add=
ed
> crosslinks between env.html and expr.html in both directions. The CGI
> environment variables section on env.html now explicitly names REQUEST_URI
> and links to the complete variable reference table on expr.html#vars.
>=20
> Note that REQUEST_URI in expressions differs from the CGI environment
> variable of the same name (the expression variable excludes the query
> string, as documented in the expr.html table).
Thanks again for your changes and explanations, but I just spent an hour
looking at them and the result with a rare degree of confusion, and remain
quite unsure about what this all means.

There are a number of concepts I do not master here, but may I ask if you a=
re
quite confident about the solution? Should I understand that the majority of
request env-variables (such as IS_SUBREQ) are specified not in env.html, but
rather in expr.html?

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