[thelist] mod_rewrite REDIRECT_REDIRECT?

[Gavin Montague]

Morning All,

I'd be very grateful if someone could explain the following to me...

RewriteRule ^level_([0-9]+)\.php$ index.php [L,E=the_var:$1]

is a rule (the only rule infact) sitting on my server running 
Apache/1.3.27.

So, I was expecting that, for 'level_123.php, I'd have access to
$_SERVER[ REDIRECT_the_var ] = 123
from my php script but what I actually get is
$_SERVER[ REDIRECT_ REDIRECT_ the_var ] = 123
and similarly I have
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_STATUS] = 200
instead of
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200

Is this correct?  To me the result implies that the redirect is somehow 
occuring twice.


Any clarification or suggestions would be extremely useful.

Thanks,
    Gavin