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

date posted 1st April 2008 17:17

Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> So really if the URL doesn't have a file extension ( .html , .php ,
>> .asp etc.) then the odds are it's being rewritten.
>
> I don't include .php in my URLs, but I don't rewrite, I use MultiViews.
>
> Effectively all URLs get rewritten, in the broad sense, even if just
> to turn the public URL into a server path under the document root.
>
> What are we specifically trying to detect?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Anthony
MultiViews are useful, I agree - but they do have their issues, as this
post explains...

http://www.gerd-riesselmann.net/archives/2005/04/beware-of-apaches-multiviews

Now admittedly that's three years ago now, but to my knowledge it hasn't
changed much in the meantime.

Alex
http://www.ozbon.com