Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

On 10/5/2010 1:35 PM, harryos wrote: > The user can enter a website address which will be tracked by the > program for certain info and then a message is sent to the user's > mail.The user can enter many such addresses.The problem is that he > may accidently enter different variations of the

Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

Part of your problem will be that there is no way to consistently determine whether the addresses are duplicate. In most cases, yes, www.example.com and example.com are the same site -- but in some they're not. Ditto for index.html, index.php, etc. (yes, I've seen sites where index.html and

Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

The user can enter a website address which will be tracked by the program for certain info and then a message is sent to the user's mail.The user can enter many such addresses.The problem is that he may accidently enter different variations of the url..and if I don't validate it for duplicates

Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

Is this for request routing, or for data input processing? On Oct 5, 12:17 pm, harryos wrote: > hi > I am trying out a web app where it needs to process user given website > addresses .My problem is that ,I need to treat >  http://mysite.com,www.mysite.com, >

Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

What about www.mysite.com/default.asp? It might be helpful if you could give us a little more insight into the real requirement here, rather than a technical question based on some interpretation of the requirement. regards Steve On 10/5/2010 12:57 PM, Alec Shaner wrote: > Definitely sounds

Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

Definitely sounds like a regular expression is what you need. Not sure what you mean by etcare you saying any variation of a web address for mysite.com, i.e., with or without www prefix, with our without protocol http://, and with our without the index page, which itself could be any

Re: treating different versions of website urls as one

Why not redirect all variants to http://mysite.com/? Nginx could do the job for you ;) Best regards. On 5 out, 13:17, harryos wrote: > hi > I am trying out a web app where it needs to process user given website > addresses .My problem is that ,I need to treat >  

treating different versions of website urls as one

hi I am trying out a web app where it needs to process user given website addresses .My problem is that ,I need to treat http://mysite.com , www.mysite.com, mysite.com, www.mysite.com/index.html, www.mysite.com/index.php ...etc as the same and not different urls.How can I do the validation in