Clarifies advice around quoting regular expressions.
Submitted by: nisbet-hubbard <87453615+nisbet-hubbard@users.noreply.github.com>
Github: closes #379
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1915443 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8 b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8
index 44e73c8..a8cac2d 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html.en.utf8
@@ -1628,4 +1628,4 @@
prettyPrint();
}
//--><!]]></script>
-</body></html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</body></html>
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index 9f4200e..160f3a8d 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@
sub-processing, external request redirection, or internal proxy
throughput.</p>
+ <p>A regular expression only needs quoting if it contains unescaped space,
+ in which case single and double quotes are equivalent.</p>
+
<p>Further details, discussion, and examples, are provided in the
<a href="../rewrite/">detailed mod_rewrite documentation</a>.</p>
</summary>
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8 b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8
index 943dc78..ed4ad51 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.html.en.utf8
@@ -365,4 +365,4 @@
prettyPrint();
}
//--><!]]></script>
-</body></html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</body></html>
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml
index 99c302f..71eebf6 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_setenvif.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@
are not separately evaluated in the subrequest due to the API phases
<module>mod_setenvif</module> takes action in.</p>
+ <p>A regular expression only needs quoting when it contains space,
+ in which case single and double quotes are equivalent. Unlike
+ <module>mod_rewrite</module>, <module>mod_setenvif</module> strips every
+ other backslash when parsing the expression; thus <code>\\</code>
+ requires <code>\\\</code>, and <code>\\\</code> requires
+ <code>\\\\\</code>.</p>
+
</summary>
<seealso><a href="../env.html">Environment Variables in Apache HTTP Server</a></seealso>
