[Toolserver-l] change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts

[Martin Peeks]

Hi,


River Tarnell wrote:
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> hi,
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> after the web server change on Wednesday, we noticed the following
> behaviour of regexp matching in rewrite scripts: when using a construct
> like "(a|b|)", the regexp will *not* match the empty string.  as a
> workaround, you can write "(a|b)?".  if you do not use this construct
> in your rewrite.script, this does not affect you.
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> we have raised this issue with Zeus and are waiting for a resolution.

Just out of curiosity, why does the toolserver use a webserver which so 
few will be familiar with, rather than apache/etc?

Thanks,

Martin