From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:03:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: emphasize that this is mostly just AAA checks and not the status
X-Git-Tag: 2.5.0-alpha~4682
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=255d3a55ad1a0fb0c787478577391c6a80d2cbc1;p=apache

emphasize that this is mostly just AAA checks and not the status
code of the handler. PR21828 and various dups.



git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1555116 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 6b7df2bfec..308dc53198 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -812,13 +812,18 @@ Alias /myapp /opt/myapp-1.2.3
             whether or not it exists, and is a regular file with size greater
             than zero.</li>
 
-            <li>'<strong>-U</strong>' (is existing URL, via
+            <li><p>'<strong>-U</strong>' (is existing URL, via
             subrequest)<br />
             Checks whether or not <em>TestString</em> is a valid URL,
             accessible via all the server's currently-configured
             access controls for that path. This uses an internal
             subrequest to do the check, so use it with care -
-            it can impact your server's performance!</li>
+            it can impact your server's performance!</p>
+            <p> This flag <em>only</em> returns information about things
+            like access control, authentication, and authorization.  This flag
+            <em>does not</em> return information about the status code the 
+            configured handler (static file, CGI, proxy, etc.) would have 
+            returned.</p> </li>
 
             <li>'<strong>-x</strong>' (has e<strong>x</strong>ecutable
             permissions)<br />