Waaay OT

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 15:16 +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> please, forgive the OT nature of this mail, I realize it has nothing to
> do with RH. 
> I've been googling an apparent rarity and having little luck, and
> thought I'd try you all in a hail Mary pass. Perhaps one of you is
> Apache guru enough to lend a hand.
> 
> My problem is, using Mod Rewrite, how do I access payloads? I'd love
> access to POST variables as well, of course, but right now what I
> primarily want to know is how can I catch the contents of a GET string
> to use in a RewriteCond.
> 
> Concretely:
> 
> I have a calling URI of
> http://domain.name/index.php?var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3
> 
> I want to redirect based on the value of a variable.
> 
> PseudoCode:
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{GET_VARS} var2=value2
> RewriteRule ^/$	http://new.domain.name/path [R,L]
> 
> Does anybody know the real code to make this happen?

I think you want to look at the "%{QUERY_STRING}" or "%{REQUEST_URI}"
variables, not true?  The "%{REQUEST_METHOD}" would give you the GET or
PUT.

Oh, and the flags at the end would be "[RL]" (no comma).
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