#22706 [Opn]: mirror site has hard-coded links to www.php.net

ID: 22706 Updated by: jacques@php.net Reported By: vbhackattack at hotmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: Hi Using the search box on the top of the browser while on the search results page now remembers which mirror you originated from, so that when you click on the results it takes you back to the original site you came from. There are various links to www.php.net in the manuals, etc. for downloads, etc. as lots of people do download the manuals for use on their pc's, and linking to www.php.net does make sense. Regards --jm Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 14:36:29] jacques@php.net I'm currently having a look at the searching from the search results page issue. Regards --jm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 13:57:58] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com P.P.S. Regarding the website search function. There is a nasty side effect of the redirection to ch.php.net for the search results page. If you perform a second search from the search results page, you completely lose your original domain which for the first set of results is cached in the URL and appears in all the results links, e.g. http://ch.php.net/search.php?show=wholesite&pattern=mail&base=http%3A%2F%2Fca.php.net%2F&lang=en Instead, since the search is initiated from ch.php.net the second search results page is all links within ch.php.net. Not what I was expecting. So whatever magic allows search results appearing on ch.php.net to link back to the originating domain, e.g. ca.php.net should also apply to searches initiated from this results page so the domain remains ca.php.net (or whatever I stared from) at all times. Comprende? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 12:29:27] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com P.S. In speaking about the website search function, when I say localized manual pages, I mean the 2 character language code embedded in the URL of the page. Since I'm starting from ca.php.net and have EN-US as my browser / OS locale, I don't want to have "fr" pages showing up in the search results, e.g. http://ca.php.net/manual/fr/ref.mail.php If you search for "mail" in the "whole site" you end up with the same page repeated many times for "en", "fr", "it", "tw", "de". Whoa! Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 12:08:19] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com I'm using a mirror site ca.php.net. However, some pages are full of hard-coded links to www.php.net, e.g. http://ca.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php. This is true of other mirrors that I looked at (uk.php.net, au.php.net and ch.php.net)for the same pages. Ordinarily this is no big deal, except that today www.php.net is gummed up, perhaps with everyone downloading the lastest RC? So I definitely don't want to go there. As a general rule, I don't want redirecting off my starting mirror. In addition, the search function returns lots of results from localized manual pages that are not my locale. I never want to see these pages, just my own locale version. But there is no way to specify this restriction. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22706&edit=1