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what is this /0-0-0-0-1.html ?

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:25 pm
by mendel
Hi, new poster.

I'm only guessing this is the correct topic category..

I've seen these strange url's on a few sites but I can't figure out how any information is passed.

Also like /0-0-0-0-0-0.html, but there are none like /234-343-23-1.html, just the 0's and (0's and 1).

What is their purpose?

How do they work?

:?

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:31 pm
by Burrito
I can't say that I've ever seen a page name like that, but what you posted as an example is just that: a name for an html page.

with the extension being .html, it probably is nothing more than just the name of the page (unless they are mapping .html to an isapi or cgi application). If they are mapping it, I suppose they could check the file name and do some processing on the server side according to the page name, but that would seem a pretty stupid way of doing things as they'd have to create separate names for each page anyway and they would already know which page it's on by virtue of the fact that it would have to be separate for each page.

Where are you seeing page names like this?

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:40 pm
by mendel
Actually, I've just noticed there are more like 1-0-11-0-3-1.html and so on, instead of a uri string.

This is mod_rewrite?

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:41 pm
by mendel
http://www.thatvideosite.com/11-1-1-0-0-0.html

I just realised, each page in each category has a unique name like this..

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:45 pm
by Burrito
if, like I mentioned above, they are mapping .html to some kind of server side application, I suppose it could be, but even then, it's not a "standard" format for mod_rewrite.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:47 pm
by mendel
Thanks, at least I know it's probably not worth worrying about.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:50 pm
by mendel
I guess an Admin should probably move this to a different category..