[wp-hackers] Duplicate Content Issue - URLs work with dots and colons in it

[Baki Goxhaj]

@Shea,

rel="canonical" or not this seems like a undesirable behaviour to have in
WordPress. The urls should not work at all with those dots and colons -
shouldn't that be the case?

Kindly,

Baki Goxhaj
about.me/banago


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq <
abdussamad at abdussamad.com> wrote:

> Yep but only on single posts. What about categories?
>
> http://wplancer.com/category/**code..../<http://wplancer.com/category/code..../>
>
> I supposed we would have to install one of those SEO plugins.
>
>
> On 08/29/2013 02:58 PM, Shea Bunge wrote:
>
>> If you look at the source of that page, you will see that there is a
>> <link rel="canonical"> pointing to the original post URL. This tells Google
>> that the original URL is preferred, no matter what URL the page is accessed
>> from.
>>
>>
>>  Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:51:38 +0200
>>> From: banago at gmail.com
>>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.**com <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Duplicate Content Issue - URLs work with dots and
>>> colons in it
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> URLs with a dot, a colon, or many, still works and Google treats it as
>>> duplicate content. Here is an example:
>>>
>>> Original:http://ma.tt/2010/11/**one-point-oh/<http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/>
>>> With a dot: http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-**point-oh./<http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh./>
>>> With a column: http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-**point-oh:/<http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh:/>
>>> With many dots:
>>> http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-**point-oh...../<http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh...../>
>>> <http://**wplancer.com/a-beginners-**guide-to-the-command-line.....**
>>> ...../<http://wplancer.com/a-beginners-guide-to-the-command-line........../>
>>> >
>>>
>>> All of these URLs work and if mistakenly on the site, they will be
>>> considered duplicate content by Google.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug? If not, why is this happening?
>>>
>>> PS: I wrote about this in the support forums, but the post seems filled
>>> with typos, thus it might be a reason I had no replies there:
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/**topic/dublicate-content-url-**
>>> works-with-tots-and-columns-**in-it<http://wordpress.org/support/topic/dublicate-content-url-works-with-tots-and-columns-in-it>
>>> Kindly,
>>>
>>> Baki Goxhaj
>>> about.me/banago
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