URLs can be accessed from false locations... is this a problem?

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Joined: 04/06/2008

I'm in the process of implementing Ubercart on my site, and I recently discovered something odd. Apparently, any of the Ubercart related areas (catalog, product pages, etc) can have additional content added to the URL and still work.

To use the livetest site as an example, going to http://livetest.ubercart.org/catalog/ currently takes me to the main catalog listing, as it should.

But so does http://livetest.ubercart.org/catalog/whatswrongwiththis, rather than giving you a "page not found" error as you'd expect.

Having read that search engines sometimes penalize sites that have the same content accessible on multiple pages, I'm a bit concerned by this.

Is this something we should be worried about? And if so, what's the fix?

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Joined: 08/08/2007
Bug FinderEarly adopter... addicted to alphas.Getting busy with the Ubercode.Not Kulvik

That is something which is of really no importance.
Your application / age only checks for required variables from any page request.
Example:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/13/1211258
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/13/1211258&this1=32&this2=testt...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/13/1211258&this1=32&this2=testt...

All lead to the same page, but only the first link is ever used on the site. Same with UberCart / Drupal. What you are referring to, is have several different "physical" links in the menu, header, footer, and other places which all points to the same page. A search engine would never create this url "http://livetest.ubercart.org/catalog/whatswrongwiththis". So just don't create it / use it and you'll be fine Smiling

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Erlend Strømsvik
Ny Media AS
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