Re: Apache AliasMatch

[Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/2/2011 5:53 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
> (Maybe the caret is superfluous - I've seen an example of Alias that, of
> course, would not have the caret, and that has me wondering.)

Superfluous?  With the caret, this will match:

http://host:port/imageserver/whateverelse

Without the caret that'll _still_ match. Maybe that's why you think it's 
superfluous?

However, without the caret, this would _also_ match (with the caret, it 
won't):

http://host:port/foo/bar/imageserver/whateverelse

The caret means "at the start".  Without the caret, it doesn't matter 
where "/imageserver/" appears in the URL...  it doesn't have to be at 
the beginning, because Vern didn't use a caret.

Whether that makes the caret "superfluous" depends on what other URLs 
the site uses, I guess.


> The URL for the above could be
>
> http://ourIPaddress:port/imageserver/vernspgm?name=vern&date=11/22/2009

Gosh, I hope you aren't really doing HTTP by IP address.  Yuck, spit, 
blech.