How can I rewrite a URL and pass on the original URL as a parameter?
- by Bobby Jack
I'm building a site that needs to include a 'check' procedure, to do several initiation tasks for a user's session. Examples include checking whether they're accepting cookies, determining if their IP address grants them specific privileges, etc.
Once the check is complete, I need to redirect the user back to the page they originally requested.
The plan is to use RewriteCond and map all URLs to an 'initiator' if the user doesn't have a specific cookie set.
Let's say I want to rewrite all URLs (ultimately, with some conditions, of course) to:
/foo?original_url=...
Where the ... is the original URL requested, URL-encoded.
The closest I've got is this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/php/cookie.php$1 [R=301]
I can then inspect the original URL, captured in the backreference, via PATH_INFO. However, this is pretty messy - I would much prefer to pass that value as a URL parameter
