Not a bug Strange Relative URL Bug

[James]

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200011101031/http://www.vbulletin.org/ ?

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20...bulletin.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1

When I click the above links, they link to:
http://xenforo.com/community/thread....13245/200011101031/http://www.vbulletin.org/
and:
http://xenforo.com/community/thread...bulletin.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1

This happens in IE, Firefox and Chrome, so I assumed it wasn't a browser bug.

 

[Paul B]

I meant to post about this a while ago....

I've been getting it for a while on some posts on my site.

 

[Mike]

That's baffling. The links are actually correct - our code even sees them as external links (they open in a new window). If I copy the URL to the clipboard and paste it, it's correct too. There must be some JS event manipulating it...

 

[Paul B]

The URL actually changes if you use www too.

http://www.replay.waybackmachine.org/200011101031/http://www.vbulletin.org/

http://www.replay.waybackmachine.or...bulletin.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1

They change to:
http://xenforo.com/community/thread....19234/200011101031/http://www.vbulletin.org/

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...bulletin.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1

 

[erich37]

not sure if this is related, but I just tried to enter the URL "www.xenforo.com" into the search-box of www.archive.org

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xenforo.com

then I click onto the button named "Latest" and then I get the following Norton-Warning: Attacking Website

 

[erich37]

BTW:

I am also wondering why my own website (XF Forum) is actually not showing up at www.archive.org anymore ?

When I enter my own URL into archive.org, I do get an Error-message:
Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time

Note: I do not have any robot.txt file installed, so I guess my website should get indexed by archive.org ?

 

[Paul B]

Completely unrelated.

 

[James]

That's baffling. The links are actually correct - our code even sees them as external links (they open in a new window). If I copy the URL to the clipboard and paste it, it's correct too. There must be some JS event manipulating it...

Agreed. I copied to clipboard and it worked, I have absolutely no idea why it's acting in that way.

 

[Mikey]

Confirmed, I click the links and get the same result.

 

[Mike]

Don't know why I didn't look at this with the original report, but this is actually something the Wayback Machine is doing - the requests are going to them, and they're actually redirecting back based on the referring URL. Nothing we can really do about it.

 

[erich37]

strange that archive.org is not indexing XF-pages ?

 

[Onimua]

strange that archive.org is not indexing XF-pages ?

Don't think that has anything to do with the bug reported here, but...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110718130315/http://xenforo.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20110705144402/http://xenforo.com/community/
http://web.archive.org/web/20110705144829/http://xenforo.com/community/forums/announcements/
http://web.archive.org/web/20110705163404/http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-1-0-2.16250/

Unless you're referring to something different.