From: Nick Kew <niq@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:43:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document limitation to ProxyPassMatch directive.
X-Git-Tag: 2.3.3~371
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9bdbce07f5ca3bf7729169a285c4ae3b1a9ff974;p=apache

Document limitation to ProxyPassMatch directive.
This is a valid bug report PR 46665, which I'm marking as WONTFIX
but which needs documenting for what it is.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@808321 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
index 082e1fa04b..371e2a5ca4 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
@@ -958,7 +958,12 @@ expressions</description>
     <p>will cause a local request for
     <code>http://example.com/foo/bar.gif</code> to be internally converted
     into a proxy request to <code>http://backend.example.com/foo/bar.gif</code>.</p>
-
+    <note><title>Note</title>
+      The URL argument must be parsable as a URL <em>before</em> regexp
+      substitutions (as well as after).  This limits the matches you can use.
+      See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi">PR 46665</a>
+      for details and workaround ideas.
+    </note>
     <p>The <code>!</code> directive is useful in situations where you don't want
     to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.</p>
 </usage>