[SOLVED] canonical urls in search results bug?

colak · 2019-12-17 06:39:21

I know that it is questionable if search results should have canonical urls but I have this meta tag for them:

<txp:if_search>
<link rel="canonical" href="<txp:site_url trim="/" /><txp:page_url />" />
</txp:if_search>

the parsed result of which is

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.tld/?m=any&amp;q=query" />

Copying and pasting the url returns a 404 because of the &. I think that the result should be:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.tld/?m=any&q=query" />

Would it validate though?
I also tried

<link rel="canonical" href="<txp:site_url trim="/" context /><txp:page_url />" />

which again returned the same url

etc · 2019-12-17 15:13:04

I think that the result should be:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.tld/?m=any&q=query" />...

Would it validate though?

I don’t think so. But it might be possible to get it with escape="", not tested.

colak · 2019-12-17 15:27:43

Interesting

<link rel="canonical" href="<txp:site_url trim="/" /><txp:page_url escape="" />" />

validates just fine! I guess that the validator understands the content!

etc · 2019-12-17 15:37:20

validates just fine!

Fine then :-)

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