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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:55:16 +0200
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On 25-06-2012 12:15, brumik wrote:
> 
> I need to test various http requests from an application and am using
> Apache/PHP on ubuntu to display the http request headers. The
> application proxy forwards http requests to the apache server's IP
> address like as follows:
> 
> 192.168.40.1/test/test.html
> 
> where 192.168.40.1 is the apache server.
> 
> I have a php script to dump the headers as follows:
> 
> <?php
>    foreach($_SERVER as $h=>$v)
>      #if(ereg('HTTP_(.+)',$h,$hp))
>        echo "<li>$h = $v</li>\n";
>    header('Content-type: text/html');
>   ?>
> 
> The problem is that to show the headers, I redirect 192.168.40.1/* to
> the above index.php page using the following redirect:
> 
> Options +FollowSymlinks
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index.php$
> 
> RewriteRule $ /index.php [R=302,L]
> 
> However the php request headers page always shows the URI as /
> index.php as opposed to the 'original' URI requested (/test/
> test.html).
> 
> How can I get it to show the 'original' URI requested? is this
> something that can be done in PHP or is it apache specific?
> 

Its apache, because it is redirecting, so PHP does only know about the
redirected request, and does have no knowledge of how this request
reached PHP.