does REQUEST_URI exclude QUERY_STRING?

Ineiev <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:13:09 +0000
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Hello,

The documentation [0] suggests it doesn't,

    REQUEST_URI
    The path component of the requested URI, such as "/index.html".
    This notably excludes the query string which is available as
    its own variable named QUERY_STRING.

However, when I write a file like,

  <html><head><title>t</title></head><body>
  <pre><!--#echo encoding='none' var='REQUEST_URI' --></pre>
  </body></html>

and try URLs with a query string, I can see it in the output.
(I haven't installed Apache from its sources, I use apache2
2.4.52-1ubuntu4.18+11.0trisquel3 coming with my distro.)

Does [0] refer to anything different (like Apache configuration
as opposed to SSI variables in the served files)?  May my server
be misconfigured?  Do I do anything else wrong?

[0] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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