leading zero issues in query strings

[Dandello2000]

Okay, so this is a weird one - I have a site - http://bigapricot.org/ that has Perl generated pages based on query strings. Some of these strings have leading zeros - '?01' rather than '?1'. For whatever reason, CSE is deleting the leading zero, turning '?01' into '?1'. Now, none of my other link checkers seem to have this issue and changing the '01' into a '1' calls up the wrong file (in Perl a '01' is not necessarily a '1').

Now, I have written a fix for this within the Perl script most badly affected, but it's a little annoying that I had to. Is there a setting in CSE (the newest one) that I should know about?

[Albert Wiersch]

I'm sorry for the trouble. Where is CSE HTML Validator deleting the leading 0's? Can you provide some steps to reproduce this problem or let me know in detail what you are doing in CSE HTML Validator? Thank you.

[Dandello2000]

When I use the batch validator on the 127.0.0.1 (localhost using Apache 1.3.31) mirror of my site, a number of pages (such as http://127.0.0.1/bigapricot/cgi-bin/series.pl?03) are appear as http://127.0.0.1/bigapricot/cgi-bin/series.pl?3. Now, nowhere that I can find is there an actual link to http://127.0.0.1/bigapricot/cgi-bin/series.pl?3 - none of my link checkers can find one and sometimes CSE batch validator finds it and sometimes it doesn't. But it ALSO finds http://127.0.0.1/bigapricot/cgi-bin/series.pl?03 (the one that's actually there).

AND, to add insult to injury, this issue doesn't appear in the remotely hosted site. (I don't have mod_rewrite turned on on the home server so that's not it.)

It's just a little strange. It's probably something peculiar to my system. But it is annoying.

[Dandello2000]

Okay - It IS my system - for some reason, even though the file is in a directory that's not supposed to be read, there was an old index_file.txt with bad links in it that the batch validator went though anyway. So if anybody out there is having weird problems with CSE finding things that shouldn't be there and you're running Zoltan Milosevic's Fluid Dynamics Search Engine - chances are really good that's where the strange links are hiding out.

[Albert Wiersch]

OK, I'm glad you figured it out. If you think there is a problem with CSE HTML Validator reading/scanning files that it shouldn't, then I'd be happy to investigate that but I would need detailed troubleshooting information... a way to reproduce the problem is usually best.