Strange alpha-numerical string at the end of URL

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Strange alpha-numerical string at the end of URL

Post by Julia » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:12 pm

Dear friends,

An strange string (alpha-numerical characters, probably are a Security or a Session Variable) is added at the end of all of the URLs of articles included in the Frontpage.

I. Strings in posts: If I write a new post with the title: Rewritten URL, this post will adopt the expected friendly url: http://www.my-website.com/rewritted-url.html

But, if I put this article in the Frontpage and in the index module menus, the URL will point to an URL like this:

http://www.my-website.com/rewritten-url ... e1f6076a1d[/b]
main website + friendly URL + alphanumerical characters

These characters sometimes appear and sometimes dissapear and are more common with Internet Explorer.

Edited: :-\

The problem is Joomla includes the data of "session_id" of the table "jos_session" in the URL, but why?
Please help me.
Best regards,
Julia






II. Strings in Menus: In the Main Menu of the site, I have a link to Docman component. This URL also had this string, I mean:
http://www.my-website.com/docman-url.ht ... e1f6076a1d[/b]

But when I turn OFF the SSL Enabled option in the Parameters (System) zone of the Main Menu, this string desappear.

Thank you for your help!.

To be considered it is installed:
- Community Building version 1.1
- We use sh404SEF

Julia

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Re: Strange alpha-numerical string at the end of URL

Post by micheas » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:05 pm

You are seeing the cookie being passed as part of the url.

If you have a misconfigured php or an unsupported version of php this is likely to be an issue. I would check out the EGCS settings of php.ini, but I have always fixed this by upgrading from php4 to php5.

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Re: Strange alpha-numerical string at the end of URL

Post by Julia » Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:55 pm

Thank you very much micheas for your reply. My PHP Version is 4.4.8
I will check with my ISP the possibility of upgrade PHP. I hope so.

Thank you again!

I will come back.

Best regards,

Julia

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Re: Strange alpha-numerical string at the end of URL

Post by Julia » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:56 am

Dear micheas:
You were rigth!. This was the problem.
Thank you very much! ;)

Best regards,

Julia


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