Re: Make your 404 pages smarter with metaphone matching

I'll treat this like a slashdot pointer and make a comment before reading the article, but I hope the author was careful not to allow any "helper" techniques reveal hidden URLs or other files. mod_speling (yes, that's the way it's spelled) was notorious for that, happily handing out pointers to guessed-at URLs. Oops.

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Re^2: Make your 404 pages smarter with metaphone matching by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Sep 03, 2007 at 15:27 UTC
As far as i can see, the script used filters all files by extension. Everything with .html gets indexed, everything else isn't.	[reply]
Re^3: Make your 404 pages smarter with metaphone matching by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 04, 2007 at 02:38 UTC
Everything with .html gets indexed, everything else isn't. And ... what? That doesn't address my concern at all. If I have a private URL that ends in ".html", it'll still likely get indexed. Then someone guesses a URL similar to that, and boom, they're in. A good solution would also have an additional regex or blacklist of things that should never be offered as a suggestion. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re^4: Make your 404 pages smarter with metaphone matching by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Sep 04, 2007 at 09:10 UTC
If I have a private URL that ends in ".html", it'll still likely get indexed. It's not likely, it will get indexed for sure. I don't think this is meant as a finished solution but to show a general way how to do such things. I am afraid however, there will be more cut & pasting than actual reading.	[reply]


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