How to get (original) THE_REQUEST?

[csaba]

Hi,
How do I get THE_REQUEST from Apache 2 (I have PHP 4.2) on my Win 2K system. I am rewriting a URL (internal redirects only), but I also would like to have access to the original request in PHP.

Thanks,
    Csaba Gabor in New York

[Anon]

What request? The HTTP request? The GET request? The POST request?

Diego

[Anon]

Given the context, the URL specified in the http request before Apache sicced mod_rewrite on it...

[csaba]

Correct, Grumbler, but evidently I spoke too soon. What was driving this is I want to be able to reference my pages as http://mydomain.us/key1/val1/key2/val2/you/get/the/idea where http://mydomain.us/index.php will process it.

So here's what I arrived at (put inside a virtual server for mydomain.us):
RewriteRule ^/?$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/\? - [L]
RewriteRule ^{/[/.].(php|js|htm)(\?|$)} - [NC,L]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/index.php/ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://headshot.us/index.php$1 [NS,L]

The way this works is that anything after the (even implied) index.php get stuffed into $_SERVER["PATH_INFO"]. Pretty nifty, huh? There is only one problem which is annoying the heck out of me. Apache does an implicit redirect (rc=302) when it uses that last rule and therefore the browser will show index.php in it's location bar. Awful.