[thesite] possible hiccough in swingin sexy url scheme

Daniel J. Cody djc at starkmedia.com
Wed Dec 12 10:34:56 CST 2001


found the prob, typo in the <cfheader> tag..

fixed on live and t.e.o

Daniel J. Cody wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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