Getting same response from two URLs having space ( ) and hyphen (-)
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Madhusudan Sharma
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Issue
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When a friendly URL is created using hyphens (E.g. https://www.abc.in/test-my-friendly-url), then one more URL, same as the friendly URL, having space ( ) in place of the hyphen (-) (E.g. https://www.abc.in/test my friendly url) delivers the same response as the friendly URL when hit.
Resolution
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This is the expected behavior of the product because while creating a URL, the '-' (hyphen) and the ' ' (space) are considered equivalent to each other.
- Therefore, this is the reason, why both the URLs -
https://www.abc.in/test-my-friendly-url and https://www.abc.in/test my friendly url delivers the same response.
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Additionally, if we try to create a friendly URL without using '-' (hyphen) (E.g → https://www.abc.in/test.my.friendly.url or https://www.abc.in/test_my_friendly_url), and try to hit the same URL using space (E.g → https://www.abc.in/test my friendly url); the server will respond with a 404 error page.
- Moreover, the URL that is stored is with '-' (hyphen) and the crawlers check for the stored URL (with the '-' hyphen) and not for that with the space. As a result, it will also not affect the SEO.
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