> > Has anyone had any problems with the plainURL custom tag and
> > installing Service Pack 6?
> >
> > plainURL allows you to write URLs like this
> > http://www.somedomain.com/index.cfm/Var1.4/Var2.abc
> > so that search engines can spider dynamic sites
> >
> > This has worked fine until installing SP6, at which point the
> > URL above returned a 404. Altering the tag so that the "." was
> > replaced with "=" fixed the problem.
> >
> >Uninstalling the Service Pack then allows you to code the URLs
> as before.
>
> This is a known issue with NT 4 SP6. It's not really a "bug",
> in that IIS is now parsing URLs as it really should have all along -
> from right to left instead of left to right. There really isn't a fix for
> this, other than downgrading to a prior SP.
OK... thanks for the info.
We can just change the variable/value delimiters back to '=' then because
AFAIK, it's the ? that stops search engines from indexing dynamic pages, not
the '=' signs.
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Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Netshopper UK Ltd
Advanced Web Solutions & Services
http://www.netshopperuk.com/
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