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Found an issue by accident

By accident I found this issue and wanted others to test

         

bwnbwn

5:23 pm on Nov 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Our graphics department added a space by accident in the build for one of our clients in the file name. File name is then the url for the customer url.
example.com/folder/filename.htm
example.com/folder/filename%20.htm

I am sent each add to optimize the title and look over the work before posting to the site. I happened to notice %20.htm at the end took it out and discovered the issue. I then tested other pages and could see I had a big issue that needing fixing.

Adding a space at the end of the url was a good url. 200 in check for both versions. In effect we have a duplicate urls for all our interior pages and this could be used agaist us or inedxed by accident.

Have the fix and in the process now of fixing all our sites just wanted to post this as I have added spaces to the url to test, but really never at the end to test if it would resolve or throw a 404.

I have added it to what I need to test sites for for duplicate issues. Might want to test yours to see what ya get.

phranque

9:34 am on Nov 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

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besides blanks, you should check for other extraneous and trailing characters such as [/?&.'"] (slash, question mark, ampersand, period, single/double quotes)

bwnbwn

2:27 am on Dec 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

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phranque thanks bro I did after that and got this all fixed as well.