Mark, Many thanks for your help. This now works
Suneet On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Mark Montague <m...@catseye.org> wrote: > On September 24, 2011 22:23 , Suneet Shah <suneetshah2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I made the change that you described below. Now the tkn header is coming >> in as null. Have I made an error in assigning the tkn to var1? >> >> URL -> >> http://localhost/test_rpc/**header.jsp?tkn=abc<http://localhost/test_rpc/header.jsp?tkn=abc> >> Header value -> tkn: (null) >> >> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} tkn=(.*) >> RewriteRule ^/test_rpc/$ [E=var1:%1] >> RequestHeader append tkn %{var1}e >> > > No, the problem is that the rewrite rule you have above tests for a path > component that exactly matches /test_rpc/ with nothing before it and nothing > after it. The URL you are testing with has a path component of > /test_rpc/header.jsp -- so this does not match, the rewrite rule does not > get invoked, and the 'var1' environment variable does not get set. > > To get a rewrite rule that tests for the correct thing, see > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/**2.2/rewrite/<https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/>in > particular the "Introduction to regular expressions and mod_rewrite" > section. > > Also, you appear to be missing the second argument of the rewrite rule. If > you don't want to perform a substitution, then the substitution argument > (the argument after the pattern argument and before the flags argument) > needs to be a single dash ("-" without the quotes). > > -- > > Mark Montague > m...@catseye.org > >
