Redirect url with a bad/spammed query string?
jpfle - February 28, 2009 - 19:22
| Project: | Global Redirect |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
Hi.
I would like to know if it would be possible to redirect an url that contains a bad GET page variable. For example, say we have a node:
mysite.com/a-test
If this page doesn't have pagination and we add a GET page variable:
mysite.com/a-test?page=4
There's no redirection 404 to mysite.com/a-test
Is it possible to know if a page has a pagination, and if not or if the GET page value isn't valid, doing a 404 redirection?
Thanks.
#1
Technically this is possible.
The problem is "how do you define a bad entry in the query string". Maybe a module on the page requires it? It could be anything...
#2
Good idea!
I just noticed in Google Webmasters one of my simple node pages was reported for duplicate title tage, when I checked it was like this
mysite.com/mynode
mysite.com/mynode?page=1
mysite.com/mynode?page=2
mysite.com/mynode?page=1205
Weird. No clue how Google picked that up as those page variables do not exist, it is just simply "mynode"
#3
Google Webmaster Tools will always report those pages like duplicated, whenever the passed query string is used or not.
The only solution to that problem is to add a meta tag to those pages.
#4
Thanks Kiam, I think I understand but the problem is that those ?page=xxx dont exist!
I have no idea how Google picked those up, as they all show the same page!
mysite.com/mynode?page=1
mysite.com/mynode?page=2
mysite.com/mynode?page=1205
is the equivalent of mysite.com/mynode
This is not a views page with paging, it is a simple node page :)
#5
That is really oddy. Google should pick up links used in Drupal nodes, not attach random strings to the URLs.