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Dogpile search problem in FAST results

URL parameters are being dropped in the transfer

         

hutchins13

7:57 pm on Jun 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

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When you do a search on Dogpile and click on a FAST listing with a dynamic URL, the URL parameters (everything from the "?" and on) are being dropped.

For example, I searched for "haggar pants", scrolled down to FAST listing number 10, and clicked on it. I was sent to the URL without the URL parameters which of course caused an error.

My site (not the one above) is losing potential customers because of this. I emailed Dogpile to let them know of the problem... haven't heard back yet.

Other than a custom error page, anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this?

Brett_Tabke

6:06 pm on Jun 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Other than your idea of the custom error handler, not really.

Got enough "tech" to parse the inbound referring keywords and send them to the "best guess" page?

hutchins13

3:08 am on Jun 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Not really... I'm hoping that Dogpile makes a fix. The traffic isn't huge... about 2.5%, but that is significant!