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#1 2011-01-30 19:27:10

wii

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"Nice try." pages from Textpattern

I found some pages using Google with Nice try messages, what is that? and how do I remove them?

URLS looks like this:

/content.php?33-Cruise-Ship-Desserts-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1-amp-nocache-1&nocache=1

#2 2011-01-30 19:40:21

Bloke

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Re: "Nice try." pages from Textpattern

wii wrote:

Nice try messages, what is that?

‘Nice try’ is triggered if the URL is over a certain length — TXP keeps its URLs fairly short so anything excessive might be an attempt to breach your site. It’s governed by the Maximum URL length value in your Advanced Prefs.

and how do I remove them?

If you want such links to go through to your site(!), increase the size of the prefs value. If you want to actually remove the links from Google’s results then I’ve no idea how to do that, sorry.

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#3 2011-01-30 20:27:35

els

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Re: "Nice try." pages from Textpattern

Wouldn’t something like

Redirect gone /content.php

in .htaccess be enough? (assuming that you don’t really have a page ‘content.php’?)

#4 2011-01-31 06:16:35

wet

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Re: "Nice try." pages from Textpattern

wii wrote:

and how do I remove them?

Thanks for the report. Change set 3473 should remedy this annoyance.

Last edited by wet (2011-01-31 06:16:44)

#5 2011-01-31 07:00:57

wii

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Re: "Nice try." pages from Textpattern

Ok wet, does this mean it’s actually a bug?

For now I removed the URLs by changing the minimum characters to 500, not sure if this is the right way to do this though.

#6 2011-01-31 07:02:28

wii

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Re: "Nice try." pages from Textpattern

Ok wet, I will make those changes to the code, thanks a lot.