Re: FN-FORUM: Can you tell if a site has had it's URL rewritten just by browsing?

date posted 1st April 2008 15:51

You can't tell of hand as far as i know but there could be some
indicators as you can rewrite URL's to any extent that you wish.

For example say for a ipod nano the display script could only require
a product id
display_product.php?id=12345
but this can be rewritten in many different ways using all the
relevant data for the product : -

- products/audio/ipod/nano/12345
- products/ipod-nano-60GB-12345.html
etc....

file extension more people tend to remove when URL rewritting as its a
piece of unnecessary data for the average user, but its not a definite
indicator.

Whats the sites/url's?

On 1 Apr 2008 16:03:49 -0000, Alex Townsend [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Paul Cooper wrote:
> > Can you tell if a site has had it's URL rewritten just by browsing?
> > If not, is there any other way (tools etc.)?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
> >
> To my knowledge there's no easy way to tell, and (again, to my
> knowledge) no tools that'll tell you for sure.
>
> However, if a URL was (for example) www.site.com/products/5678 then you
> could be pretty sure that it's being rewritten.
>
> So really if the URL doesn't have a file extension ( .html , .php , .asp
> etc.) then the odds are it's being rewritten.
>
> Don't know if that helps at all.
>
> Alex
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