[thesite] possible hiccough in swingin sexy url scheme

[Daniel J. Cody]

rudy937 wrote:


> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=evolt&start=20&hl=en&rnum=22&selm=donarb-0
> 511991101270001%40ip230.usw3.rb1.bel.nwlink.com
> 
> note the link is
> 
>   http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=454
> 
> and it gets translated as
> 
> http://www.evolt.org/:%20http://www.evolt.org/article/Workaround_for_radio_b
> utton_color_problem/17/454/index.html
> 
> i.e. it looks like it's searching for ": http:" (see keyword input field)
> 
> this is not a big problem (didn't we decide to abandon old style urls?) but
> i thought you should know...


we never abondoned them.. they're supposed to return a 301 status code, 
and redirect to the article in question(this was a prob when we switched 
to 2.0.. we we're just redirecting with a 200 and bots indexed the 
redirect page instead of the content page)

i would say that i've noticed this a *lot* in the referer log lately, 
but didnt think anything of it till now.. the app_404.cfm file which 
handles the old school url scheme is the same as its been as far as i 
can tell, so i'm wondering if the Application.cfm(with the old url.cid 
var) got changed?

.djc.