From 474cdce9f2132f993624a17c3a9d478318f91a05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:22:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] be explicit that REQUEST_URI is the path component only (like
 r->uri)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1165114 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index 53de3b3e57..80d3593889 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -490,9 +490,10 @@ RewriteRule ^index\.html$  newsite.html
 
                   <dt><code>REQUEST_URI</code></dt>
 
-                  <dd>The resource requested in the HTTP request
-                  line. (In the example above, this would be
-                  "/index.html".)</dd>
+                  <dd>The path component of the requested URI,
+                  such as "/index.html".  This notably excludes the
+                  query string which is available as as its own variable
+                  named <code>QUERY_STRING</code>.</dd>
 
                   <dt><code>REQUEST_FILENAME</code></dt>
 
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2.40.0