mod_rewrite apache

[wifiED]

Hey Guys

Wonder if anyone will be able to assist me.

I am wanting to strip the tailing characters from a file name (file.pdf?abcdefhekjkjhsdhsd) so that apache just serves the plain file name (file.pdf)
Can anyone help with a quick way to do it using mod_rewrite in apache?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

[elgato319]

mod_rewrite is not responsible for this.
The appliction that generates the urls needs to be altered.

[wifiED]

Hi there

Thanks but yes i am aware of that. But the reason for this is that the application generates a unique tail on the file so that it no.1 doesnt get cached and no.2 is able to keep track of the unique downloads.

[scherz0]

I am wanting to strip the tailing characters from a file name (file.pdf?abcdefhekjkjhsdhsd) so that apache just serves the plain file name (file.pdf)

You should not have to use mod_rewrite, since by default the mapping is : URL to filename (i.e. without the query string). Do you confirm that in the error log, apache complains about the file "file.pdf?abcdefhekjkjhsdhsd" missing ?

[cach0rr0]

i can help with the regex, cant say whether or not this is an appropriate solution


at least in perl or whatnot it'd be something like

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s/(.*)\?[^?]+/$1/

note that regex will break if you have multiple question marks in the Request-URI

this one does not, but isn't as precise

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s/(.*)\?.*/$1/

hope that helps?