Forum Topic: NS flag and sub-request

Forum: .htaccess Forum : Redirecting • Posted by amit kumar • Updated:

As the htaccess made easy book stated NS flag to prevent sub-requests, but I am not really getting what are sub-requests exactly ?

3 Replies to “NS flag and sub-request”

Posted by Jeff Starr •

On which page(s) do you find the infos, so I can take a look..

Posted by amit kumar •

Page No. 15 in htaccess made easy pdf > “[NS] No Subrequest: instructs the server to skip the directive if internal sub-request”

Posted by Jeff Starr •

Thanks, here is a good article that explains it in much more depth:

https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/apache_mod/25.htm

Basically they refer to other processes that Apache may execute during a request.