Spot the mistake

Hi

This rewrite should work, but it isn't. Can anyone spot what the
problem is?

RewriteRule /someAPIServlet\?command=createaccount$(.*)
/someServlet?command=createaccount$1/ [R]

Instead of a 302 I get a 200 OK response. Afaik, the Rewrite rule is
syntactically correct.

+++GET 227+++
GET
/someAPIServlet?command=createaccount&cageid=104547 8&country=100&currency=100&title=Mr&firstname=Blah &lastname=DeeBlah&street1=6Highst&street2=Blahstow n&street3=Blahville&DistrictTown=Blahtown&DOB=1978 0401&Postalcode=sl73le&Primaryphone=161561611&AltP hone=156151115&Email=vcttesstt82@leisurecash.net
HTTP/1.1
Host: test.yada.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Cookie: Lang=1; JSESSIONID=e--Gn8QQTrM8
Connection: keep-alive

+++RESP 227+++
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:56:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.52 OpenSSL/0.9.7b
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
P3P: policyref="http://test.yada.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="ALL DSP COR CURa
ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR BUS IND UNI COM NAV INT"
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+++CLOSE 227+++

If anyone can spot why this isn't working, i'd appreciate the tip.

Cheers

On 28 May 2005 05:03:24 -0700,
<asil75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This rewrite should work, but it isn't. Can anyone spot what the
> problem is?
>
> RewriteRule /someAPIServlet\?command=createaccount$(.*)
> /someServlet?command=createaccount$1/ [R]
>
> Instead of a 302 I get a 200 OK response. Afaik, the Rewrite rule is
> syntactically correct.

"$(.*)" means End-of-Line followed by arbitrary text.
This is obviously incorrect.


--n

On 28 May 2005 05:03:24 -0700, in comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,
asil75@gmail.com wrote:

>Hi
>
>This rewrite should work, but it isn't. Can anyone spot what the
>problem is?
>
> RewriteRule /someAPIServlet\?command=createaccount$(.*)
>/someServlet?command=createaccount$1/ [R]
>

UNTESTED

It is not clear if the $ follow "createaccount" is supposed to be
there as an actual character in the pattern. If so, include it below
and escape it (\$). The QSA flag in the second option may be
superfluous.

The first option parses the query string. The second uses the fact
that the query string is unchanged to just match on it as a condition.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^command=createaccount(.*)
RewriteRule ^/someAPIServlet$ /someServlet?command=createaccount%1/
[R]

or

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^command=createaccount
RewriteRule ^/someAPIServlet$ /someServlet [R,QSA]

HTH,
Jim