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    BobRay Reply #11, 12 years, 5 months ago
    Quote from: sottwell at May 06, 2014, 11:55 AM
    Sounds like if furls are on, it'll redirect any non-furl URLs.

    Yes, but I think that will also happen if FURLs are off.
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      sottwell Reply #12, 12 years, 5 months ago
      Nope. Did a couple of telnet sessions.

      1. Using index.php?id=xx with FURLs on.
      HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 17:27:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.6 PHP/5.5.10 mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8y DAV/2 mod_perl/2.0.8 Perl/v5.18.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.10
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=2db2aedb1fefc4ffbe0ec9c7ece12756; expires=Tue, 13-May-2014 17:27:22 GMT; Max-Age=604800; path=/revo2214/; HttpOnly
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Location: http://localhost/revo2214/list-source
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.


      2. Same telnet request with FURLs turned off (HTML of page follows this):
      HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 17:33:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.6 PHP/5.5.10 mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8y DAV/2 mod_perl/2.0.8 Perl/v5.18.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.10
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=7245f95548d7f6a8b40a241fa78acb92; expires=Tue, 13-May-2014 17:33:10 GMT; Max-Age=604800; path=/revo2214/; HttpOnly
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
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        sottwell Reply #13, 12 years, 5 months ago
        And after turning on my Apache access logs, I find
        ::1 - - [06/May/2014:20:52:52 +0300] "GET /revo2214/index.php?id=3 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"
::1 - - [06/May/2014:20:52:52 +0300] "GET /revo2214/list-source HTTP/1.1" 200 2893 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"


        and with FURLs off
        ::1 - - [06/May/2014:20:56:00 +0300] "GET /revo2214/index.php?id=3 HTTP/1.1" 200 2901 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"
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          sottwell Reply #14, 12 years, 5 months ago
          I suppose that it does make sense that the index.php?id=xx should be "permanently moved" to the friendly URL. Makes it hard to determine exactly what URL the visitor came in on, though.
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            shanderson Reply #15, 12 years, 4 months ago
            Thank you for the help. Bruno17's technique of using a plugin with "onHandleRequest" worked. In my case I didn't need to "sendForward" anything.

            In conclusion:
            Friendly URLs is "on". MODX is doing the forwarding/redirecting (not .htaccess ie apache) to the friendly url. Apache sees the original request and then sees the forwarding/redirecting request (resulting in 2 Apache log entries). The $_SERVER variable values and "apache_request_headers()" values reflect the second pass through Apache.

            I needed to do work when the user arrived to the site via an index.php?id=... url. By creating a plugin that triggered on the system event "onHandleRequest", I can do the work during the initial request (and thereby use the initial request headers) before the forwarding/redirecting to the friendly URL.


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              shanderson Reply #16, 12 years, 4 months ago
              This matches my testing results also.

              Quote from: sottwell at May 06, 2014, 12:56 PM
              And after turning on my Apache access logs, I find
              ::1 - - [06/May/2014:20:52:52 +0300] "GET /revo2214/index.php?id=3 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"
::1 - - [06/May/2014:20:52:52 +0300] "GET /revo2214/list-source HTTP/1.1" 200 2893 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"


              and with FURLs off
              ::1 - - [06/May/2014:20:56:00 +0300] "GET /revo2214/index.php?id=3 HTTP/1.1" 200 2901 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"