The client is already complaining about the length of the URL's because people who bookmark and mail them find them being wrapped and not working when clicked in the email. Also (true or not) the belief is that any ?query_string in a URL keeps some spiders from indexing the page because they assume it is a dynamic page.
Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "spike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Spectra-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:08 AM Subject: Re: Path2URL and Spectra Page Caching > Is there any reason why you can't put the querystring on the end of the > search-engine friendly url? > > i.e. > > http://thesite/index.cfm/objectID/BD67C6D3-FB4C-400A-8C1D548D2A17C660?objectID=BD67C6D3-FB4C-400A-8C 1D548D2A17C660 > > Spike > > At 15:55 31/10/2001 Wednesday, you wrote: > >Yep, that's probably what I will end up doing. The client had hoped > >to just use the Spectra Webtop level controls though. > > > >Rich > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Spectra-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:50 PM > >Subject: RE: Path2URL and Spectra Page Caching > > > > > > > Richard: > > > > > > Perhaps you could look into using the cfa_generatedContentCache tag to > > > accomplish similar page level caching. That would give you greater control > > > over the naming scheme of your cache so you could get the path variables > > > yourself and use them as a part of your cache name. > > > > > > Just a suggestion. > > > > > > Andrew Hewitt > > > Webworld Studios Inc. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Richard Ragan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:04 AM > > > To: Spectra-Talk > > > Subject: Path2URL and Spectra Page Caching > > > > > > > > > I think this is really a CF issue but since it came up when working on > > > Spectra let me post it here. > > > > > > I am using a relatively common customtag called path2URL so that spiders > > > won't be scared > > > away from seemingly dynamic pages (e.g > > > http://thesite/index.cfm?objectID=BD67C6D3-FB4C-400A-8C1D548D2A17C660 is > > > actually > > > written as > > > http://thesite/index.cfm/objectID/BD67C6D3-FB4C-400A-8C1D548D2A17C660 and > > > the > > > custom tag takes care of creating the proper URL variable and value. > > > > > > I turned on Spectra caching for this page and regardless of objectID value, > > > I get the same > > > cached page. It looks like the CFCACHE tag called from CFA_PAGE uses the > > > value of > > > CGI.QUERY_STRING to build the entry in the cachemap file and in deciding > > > whether to > > > create separate cache pages. With Path2URL, QUERY_STRING is always empty. > > > Since you cannot change the values in CGI scope, I don't see anyway around > > > this impasse. > > > Any ideas out there? > > > > > > Regards, Rich Ragan > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/spectra_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
