Re: does REQUEST_URI exclude QUERY_STRING?

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On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 02:09:54PM -0500, Eric Covener wrote:
> > [0] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html
>=20
> I find it surprising that it includes the query.  Both modules are
> finding their way to the same internal value in slightly different
> ways: https://nightlies.apache.org/httpd/trunk/doxygen/structrequest__rec=
=2Ehtml#a200869c456b0bd046a32942f9ff51af4
>=20
> Is there any kind of URL manipulation prior to hitting the SSI?
> Possibly you are seeing the decoded form of something that was
> encoded/re-encoded as e.g.  /foo%3fbar?

$ ls -A
apache.conf  uri.html
$ cat apache.conf
# Simple Apache2 configuration with SSI enabled.
# Public domain; initially written by ineiev.

PidFile ${APACHE_ROOT}/pid
ErrorLog /dev/null
CustomLog /dev/null combined

Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/authz_core.load
Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/mime.load
Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/mime.conf
Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_prefork.load
Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_prefork.conf
Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/include.load

Listen ${APACHE_ADDR}:${APACHE_PORT}
ServerName ${APACHE_ADDR}
<VirtualHost ${APACHE_ADDR}:${APACHE_PORT}>
  DocumentRoot ${APACHE_ROOT}
  AddHandler server-parsed .html
  Options +IncludesNoExec
</VirtualHost>
$ cat uri.html
<!--#echo encoding=3D'none' var=3D'REQUEST_URI' -->
$ APACHE_ADDR=3D127.0.0.1 APACHE_PORT=3D4913 APACHE_ROOT=3D`pwd` \
  apache2 -f `pwd`/apache.conf -k start
$ wget -q -O - 'http://127.0.0.1:4913/uri.html?query-string'
/uri.html?query-string

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