Posted by Justin Koivisto on 10/03/05 17:15

Jon Maz wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Forgive a newbie-ish question here, but I've not been long in the Apache /
> PHP world.
>
> I'm just learning about mod_rewrite, and a question occurred to me. Once
> Apache has rewritten a url, the php page can (obviously) see the *rewritten*
> url and access it via $_GET. But does php have any access to the *original*
> url? I'm told that Apache *does* expose both urls (original and rewritten),
> it's just a question of whether the php module also exposes both.
>
> Any ideas?

PHP can access the requested URI (seen in the browser's address bar) is
in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. AFAIK, there isn't a direct entry of the
target URI (or query string) set in the $_SERVER array...

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