While likely unrelated to this specific problem Lotus Domino (now IBM) does much of it's work using urls like http://www.domain.com/foo/bar.nsf/01234567890123456789012345678901/abcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefas?OpenDocument. Now this URL is pretty simple - the command is just OpenDocument. It's also quite common to get urls like ?OpenFrameset&Src=foo&Target=bar, ?OpenAgent¶m..... etc.

This is poor planning on Lotus' part but doesn't change the fact that people do need search engines to index the information after the ? mark. Heck - the UseMod wiki does this as well. Everything to the right is the page being viewed/edited. You can't google a UseMod site unless you use the ? data as well. It's just not a good heuristic anymore. Like anything on the internet - those good old days are gone. Now Lotus does have workaround where you can get it to use the '!' bang mark but I recall there are some caveats to that. I've never needed it for my work and can't speak to it.

__SIG__
printf "You are here %08x\n", unpack "L!", unpack "P4", pack "L!", B::svref_2object(sub{})->OUTSIDE

In reply to Re: (jeffa) Re: index.htm and .cgi by diotalevi
in thread index.htm and .cgi by andrew

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