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diff xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.xml @ 503:aed015c3dedd
Documented URI normalization rules, including %-decoding.
Aligned the description of the $uri variable accordingly.
| author | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@nginx.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:35:12 +0000 |
| parents | 76a8eca844d0 |
| children | 657848837328 |
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--- a/xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.xml Tue Apr 24 06:21:34 2012 +0000 +++ b/xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.xml Tue Apr 24 06:35:12 2012 +0000 @@ -1288,6 +1288,18 @@ <para> Sets a configuration based on a request URI. +</para> + +<para> +The matching is performed against a normalized URI, +after decoding a text encoded in the “<literal>%XX</literal>” form, +resolving references to relative path components “<literal>.</literal>” +and “<literal>..</literal>”, and possible +<link id="merge_slashes">compression</link> of two or more +adjacent slashes into a single slash. +</para> + +<para> A location can either be defined by a prefix string, or by a regular expression. Regular expressions are specified by prepending them with the “<literal>~*</literal>” prefix (for case-insensitive matching), or with the @@ -2808,10 +2820,10 @@ <tag-name><var>$uri</var></tag-name> <tag-desc> -current URI in request +current URI in request, <link id="location">normalized</link> <para> -It may differ from an original, e.g. when doing internal redirects, -or when using index files. +The value of <var>$uri</var> may change during request processing, +e.g. when doing internal redirects, or when using index files. </para> </tag-desc>