> 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.
Yes but the system doesn't simply serve the correct data with the incorrect URL, it corrects the URL and redirects using a 301 error therefore telling the user agent that the page has permanently moved to a new location i.e. the correct location. By doing it this way, there is no splitting of page rank or any way in which Google (or any other search engine) thinking that the site has duplicate content. Besides, it's going to be a remote likelihood that a spider is going to find an incorrectly spelled link on the site itself and still quite remote for someone to copy paste a link from an electronic source into another website that links back. It's mainly for those users that are typing in URLs copying them from printed documentation. > 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? That is a possibility, I could do this easily with the solution I've built by dropping the levenshtein function and just outputting the possible links from the initial difference query. But again, I was aiming for a transparent process. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
