Paul, I fully understood what you were asking but quite frankly thought it was massive overkill to be honest. I personally wouldn't do it for a number of reasons, the main one being Google and splitting page rank and/or it thinking you have pages with duplicate content.
Still, to accomplish what your trying to do you have what looks like a solid solution, although how about simply showing a 404 but showing a list of possible urls that are like the mistyped url on the 404 handling page? Cheers, Craig. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2007 14:21 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SES URL handling Hi Craig, > I totally gave up on using CF managed SES url's a while back, although > it might not be 100% useful for you, I'm using a windows mod_rewrite > equivalent called Linkfreeze. > > http://www.helicontech.com/linkfreeze/ > > It dynamically re-writes all internal links in your source code as it > delivers content via IIS, well worth checking out but there are many > other tools to do the same thing. I wasn't asking about URL rewriting in the traditional sense, I was asking about how you handle typos in the URLs... Eg http://www.myserver.com/thisiscorrect/ <--- this is ok http://www.myserver.com/thisiscorect/ <--- this has a typo Personally, I'd want them both to work with the incorrect one being detected and corrected so that rather than serving the 404 handler, it redirects to the relevant content. This example is a naive one as it could be done with URL re-write but I want (and have developed) something more generic that could handle pretty much any old rubbish and have a good guess as what is should point at. I'm just not sure if there is a better way to do it. > As for 404 handling, it's just as it would be on any normal site. So > far > it's a much simpler solution. So in your case, am I to understand that if someone entered the second URL in my example your server would simply serve the 404? If so then again, this is not what I am talking about. For me, the server should have a modicum of intelligence when it is looking at the URLs and be able to provide a closest match to the mistyped URL. This is especially useful when you consider the spelling of certain common words changes between countries that use the same language where maybe z is used instead of s. There are a few exceptions where the words are too far away from each other for this to work for instance, Fawcett and Tap, Wrench and Spanner, Fender and Wing, Hood and Bonnet but in these cases the standard URL rewrite stuff will work just fine.... It's the fuzzy logic cases I'm wondering about... As I said, my solution to this is in the 404 handler and uses the SQL DIFFERENCE function and a levenshtein distance algorithm to determine which content in the DB is the closest match to that which was typed. The DIFFERENCE function pulls out a subset of the links that are reasonably close matches and the levenshtein algorithm then picks the closest one. It seems to be effective, I was simply asking if anyone knows if there is a better solution? Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276029 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
