* Jim Riggs wrote:
> > On 1 May 2015, at 10:52, André Malo <n...@perlig.de> wrote:
> >
> > * Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
> >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Jim Riggs <apache-li...@riggs.me>
> >
> > wrote:
> >>>> Thanks, Yann. I remember looking at this code before. The question
> >>>> remains, though: Is it currently "wrong"? Does it need to be "fixed",
> >>>> or was this distinction made intentionally? Is there a specific use
> >>>> case that requires the regex-matching directives to not get
> >>>> slash-normalized URIs?
> >>>
> >>> I would like it to be fixed, non leading "/+" is equivalent to "/",
> >>> this would break very few (if any) cases IMHO, and may even unbreak
> >>> more ones .
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> I would expect Location and LocationMatch using the same uri for
> >> comparison.
> >
> > Hmm, that assumption is wrong by definition. Location always matches a
> > prefix (a part of a parsed/unparsed url), while LocationMatch always
> > matches the complete URL.
>
> We need to be careful on that phrasing. LocationMatch *can* match the
> complete URL if it is anchored at both ends. By default, though, it will
> match anywhere in the URL if it is unanchored, and it can (with the '/+' we
> are discussing here) behave just like Location and match a prefix if it is
> only anchored at the beginning.
Well, yes, careful. It's actually the regex which is anchored, not the URL ;-)
> However, that documentation is actually not correct. This is not true: "For
> example, <LocationMatch \"^/abc\"> would match the request URL /abc but not
> the request URL //abc." Based on all of my tests, the leading slash *is*
> collapsed in the *Match and RewriteRule directives. Subsequent slashes
> after the first are not.
It's probably too old.
> So, it is documented, but is there a compelling use case for this? When
> would someone actually need to match against the multiple slashes (unless
> it's some really strange hack someone has implemented)? The only thing I
> can think of is that maybe you want to force a redirect to remove multiple
> slashes, but couldn't a directive in mod_alias(?) maybe handle that if
> deemed necessary?
As said, I'd concur for fixing LocationMatch, but we might consider leaving it
as-is for RewriteRule (and document it better), because we may want to give
the swiss-knife-user something to work on.
Cheers,
nd
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