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The Impact
Junior Member

Australia
398 Posts

Posted - 17 May 2004 : 08:10:09

I have come up with another question...

One of the forums nominated for the Hall of Fame :
http://www.propertyinvesting.com/forum/

Has different topic URLs than a standard Snitz Forum.
/topic/10158.html

I have also noticed that CNET News also uses similar URLs.
http://news.com.com/2100-1022_3-5213391.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

HTML is static but in these examples it is used as a dynamic page, how is this possible ?

I am interested to what this is called, how its done and any other information ?

TIA

PeeWee.Inc
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1893 Posts

Posted - 17 May 2004 : 08:23:58

It's the same for forums:
/forum/24.html

I'm not sure how it's done, but i remember him saying he done it for betting searching with sites like google

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laser
Advanced Member

Australia
3859 Posts

Posted - 17 May 2004 : 08:47:10

Yeah, but most modern search engines understand dynamic content these days.

I'd guess that they have changed the MIME encoding in the web listener so that (normally static) HTML pages are actually internally interpreted as dynamic. I think you can do that on Apache, is it possible on IIS as well ?

CarKnee
Junior Member

USA
297 Posts

Posted - 17 May 2004 : 12:39:07

You can also use a custom 404 error page to handle this.

For instance, when someone tries to load up /topic/10158.html it will send it to your specified 404 page. That 404 page then gets the 10158 and displays the content just like the topic.asp page.

redbrad0
Advanced Member

USA
3725 Posts

Posted - 17 May 2004 : 16:19:08

But from what I know about the custom 404 error pages is that search engines will know they are a 404 and will not index them. Is that correct?

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CarKnee
Junior Member

USA
297 Posts

Posted - 18 May 2004 : 09:11:46

In the custom 404 page, if you leave out

Response.Status = "404 Not Found"

then the SE shouldn't know it is an error page.

Here is an example of where I am using it:
Real page: http://www.ddc-web.com/products/products.asp?Number=BU%2D65566
Non-existant page using custom 404: http://www.ddc-web.com/asp/products/BU%2D65566.htm

Both pages are the same, but the .htm file does not exist.

CarKnee

Edited by - CarKnee on 18 May 2004 09:13:06

sr_erick
Senior Member

USA
1318 Posts

Posted - 18 May 2004 : 12:03:31

I've done something similar here as I develop my new personal website system. http://www.dbfanatics.com/id/erick This brings you to the default page of thier website. Everything comes from the database. If you go to http://www.dbfanatics.com/id/erick/2 it will bring you to the second page, and so forth. All it is doing is querying the database for the information.