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

[David Ernst]

You'd prefer your visitors see a 404 page? What's the benefit?

On Saturday, August 31, 2013, Baki Goxhaj wrote:

> @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 <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>
> >>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.**com <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com<javascript:;>
> >
> >>> 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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