Rel canonical pointing to itself

[stephang]

Hello.

I have a small question that I can't get an answer to.
I assume everybody heard about rel canonical,.. ok.

So my issue is..
I have Page A, and Page B.
I have to put a rel canonical tag on Page B, so that it points to Page A.

However, since it is the exact same page(dynamic content), if I put a rel canonical tag on Page B, it also appears on page A.

So basically, Page A is also pointing to Page A.

Did anybody had the same issue?..
It is ok for the canonical page to have a 'link rel="canonical"' pointing to itself?

Thank you very much !

[Receptional Andy]

There's no problem with having a canonical attribute referencing the current URL. This is expected behaviour on many sites

[stephang]

Thanks for the quick reply. Greatly appreciated!

[jd01]

Why can't you just find the requested URI and turn it off or on?
In PHP it could look something like this:

if(strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],"PageB.html")) {
$AddTheRel="<rel link here>";
}

OR if you are using Query_Strings, maybe like this:

if(strstr($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'],"PageB")) {
$AddTheRel="<rel link here>";
}

ADDED:
Sorry if I sound blunt, it's late here. =)

[johnnie]

There's no problem with doing that at-all.