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Wouter van Vugt

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My daily WTF...

Being an frequent reader of the daily WTF, I couldn't help but post my WTF I've just uncovered on this blog. Go to the blog homepage http://blogs.infosupport.com/ look at the logo of community server at the bottom center of the page. Now look at the tooltip hyperlink. WTF could that hyperlink be used for? Perhaps it is a 'I've been clicked 1 time notify someone' kinda http handler at the other side. You can change the 1 in other values, but make it to big an the server will break down with errors. Probably an overflow of some sort, anyone here who can enlighten me on why such an important http handler is necessary to perform a redirect, or why the hyperlink contains the mysterious number 1 ? WTF I say!

Published Friday, September 01, 2006 4:53 PM by wouterv

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peterhe said:

It is some sort of configurable redirect mechanism. If you fill in 2, 3, etc you go to different pages. Probably a way to future-proof these links. The obscure link format could be chosen to minimize the link size in each html page, because links with parameters are ignored by most search engines, or because the coder did not bother to make up a param name. :) It may not be the prettiest way to solve it, but it doesn't make me go WTF either.

September 2, 2006 2:35 PM
 

Raimondb said:

Or shorter said: It probably is CS's version of http://tinyurl.com/

September 3, 2006 11:05 PM
 

wouterv said:

Both comments are valid indeed. But still, isn't it strange that every value used for the querystring redirects to the CS homepage or causes a server error?

Oh well, perhaps the real WTF here is that we spend time on this instead of working :)

September 4, 2006 2:31 PM
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