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RainboRick  
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 More options Feb 7 2007, 7:43 pm
From: RainboRick
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:43:14 -0800
Local: Wed, Feb 7 2007 7:43 pm
Subject: Re: XHTML and ampersands interpretation
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Just a guess, but you probably need to change the 'Content-type'
<meta> tag.  Your server is sending Content-Type "text/html" in the
response header for these URLs, and then you reinforce that with the
<meta> tag which comes AFTER your <!DOCTYPE>.  Try "text/xhtml" in the
<meta> tag, and set up code 301 redirects in your .htaccess file to
fix the ampersand problems you've already got in Google.

On Feb 7, 3:18 pm, thuss wrote:

> Just to clarify, what we're seeing is that GoogleBot is requesting the
> URL with & between arguments instead of &.

> On Feb 7, 3:14 pm, thuss wrote:

> > We are seeing Googlebot crawl URL's on our site without interpreting
> > the XHTML & as an & character. For example we do a proper XHTML
> > href on our pages (note the & entity reference):

> > <a href="http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?
> > district=101&state=CA&lc=h">Some text</a>

> > which browsers then property interpret and take the user to:

> >http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?district=101&state=CA&lc=h

> > However, we're seeing a lot of 500 errors in our logs and in the
> > webmaster console because Google is requesting the URL:

> >http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?district=101&state=CA&am...

> > Anyone else running into this problem?

> > Thanks,
> > Todd


 
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