Patch to support full regular expressions [#795990]

Would a patch to support full regular expressions be welcome?

Reason is I see a need to exclude caching in the presence of certain query strings. I can see a definite case when using PURL and needing to provide dynamic behavior while not actually requiring the user to log in to the site. In those cases, PURL can be used to identify a user and provide personalized content by turning off caching for those specific requests.

This is speculative at this point so I'm just wondering if a patch for that would have a chance to be committed or if you see it being beyond the scope of this module?

Thanks.

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Comment #1

Crell CreditAttribution: Crell commented 19 September 2011 at 04:07

Hm. If it could be done cleanly, perhaps. Because the current partial-regex is still adequate for most use cases, and much easier to grok, I'd want to make sure it's done in a way that lets people who don't need full regex not have to deal with it.