Re: Word boundaries in regexps (Apache bug?)

[Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Victor Porton wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:05 +0200, Torsten Foertsch wrote: 
> > On Tue 15 Sep 2009, Victor Porton wrote:
> > > > <!--#if expr="$QUERY_STRING = /(^|\b)city(\b|$)/" -->
> > > After this change the test 2 passes, but it does not pass if I enter
> > > http://localhost/test2.shtml?city=2
> > Perhaps you have to outwit the SSI string parser. Just a guess:
> >
> >   <!--#if expr="$QUERY_STRING = /\\bcity\\b/" -->
>
> /\\bcity\\b/ works on my localhost (Debian Linux with Apache 2.2.13-1),

Good.  Mystery solved (though I have to confess I'm a little
surprised you need that in the context).

> but does not work on http://logostudio.co.il/test.html?city with Apache
> 1.3.41 (FreeBSD).

As I told you earlier on IRC, 1.3 used a pre-PCRE regexp engine.

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Nick Kew

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