SERVER vars:
[REMOTE_ADDR] => 35.236.192.28
[REMOTE_PORT] => 61840
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-PT; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) which is Firefox 3.5 on XP
Whatever this is doing, it is appending
'A=0
to the URL.
E.g., correct URL =
changes it to
That results in a 404 because the query string, me=yes, should be the correct var for the program to find the right page.
(1) What's happening? Is this really Google?
(2) If it's Google, then why doesn't Google quality check and correct what they are doing?
(3) Why doesn't the user agent reflect a bot?
(4) It's upsetting to find this during a debugging routine a long time after the program is coded and quality checked okay.
How can that be prevented in the future? How do I predict that Google will do something stupid like this.