Hello!

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:28:29PM -0400, flash wrote:

> So I guess I need to start with my rewrites...here they are
>
> rewrite ^/([0-9]+)/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/?$ $theme/listing.php?mls=$1 last;
> rewrite ^/([0-9]+)/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)+.html?$ $theme/listing.php?mls=$1 last;

This one will backtrack in an exponential way due to "(...+)+"
construct. On long enough URL it will cause problems.

Here is pcretest session which demonstrates the problem:

$ pcretest
PCRE version 7.9 2009-04-11

re> !^/([0-9]+)/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)+.html?$!
data> /1/1.html
0: /1/1.html
1: 1
2: 1
data> /1/1.htmlx
No match
data> /1/111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.htmlx
Error -8

[...]

> These rewrites are working like I want them too but are they
> causing my prce errors?

Yes they are.

Maxim Dounin

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