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Hi All,

I have this URL on my website that is causing a problem
http://www.raveportal.com/1347_How_to_list_files_with_*_after_executables,_/_after_directories_and_@_after_each_symbolic_link

There is a forward slash "/" in this. Everything after this forward slash "/" is treated as a new file and "1347_How_to_list_files_with_*_after_executables,_" is treated as a new directory.

If you go to this link, this is just a question on the page
How to list files with * after executables, / after directories and @ after each symbolic link

I have rewritten this url so that the URL is search engine friendly.

Also when I go and check the analytics, I see that teh GoogleBot was continuously looping on this url trying to find files under the directory 1347_How_to_list_files_with_*_after_executables,_.

Did not know this will become my own nemesis. I tried the URL encode also but it starts giving me 403 error.

Can somebody suggest a solution. I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in Advance

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Member Avatar for almostbob

remove the dot underscore, and read the acceptible charset notes

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remove the dot underscore, and read the acceptible charset notes

remove dot underscore...its is not in the url...

Member Avatar for navdeep7489

use this html special chars / or use rawurlencode() function

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Thank you all for your valuable inputs.

The issue got resolved. , + / @ won't be allowed in urls. If we do a urlencode on these, then in mozilla when we visit the URL, the characters are decoded by default and if I have a '/' it gives me 404 error. What I did was urlencode(urlencode($string)). This way I did a double encoding and the browser only does a single decoding. However this is just a workaround not a solution.

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