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This Story was submitted few days ago. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9645369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9645369

• jackgavigan 11y ago
  Looks like the HN Submit script doesn't recognise the fact that $URL and $URL?$SPURIOUS_GARBAGE are actually the same URL...
  • raverbashing 11y ago
    No, this is by design.
    • jackgavigan 11y ago
      Why?
  • pervycreeper 11y ago
    > $URL and $URL?$SPURIOUS_GARBAGE are actually the same URL They are not, in fact, even if you observe getting the same outcome from using both.
    • reagency 11y ago
      You are pedantically correct, the least useful kind of correct
  • downandout 11y ago
    If it didn't recognize them as distinct URLs, a significant percentage of links would be rejected as having already been submitted. Http://site.com/article.php?id=1234 and http://site.com/article.php?id=5678 http://site.com/article.php?id=5678 may be two legitimately unique articles.
    • jackgavigan 11y ago
      Then it's not $SPURIOUS_GARBAGE, is it? My point is that it's not exactly rocket science to add an if/case statement in the Submit script that checks whether the URL being submitted is on a list of domains for which the '?' and anything after it should be disregarded. 'Twould also be great if it recognised that www.bbc.co.uk and www.bbc.com are effectively the same site.
      • aerique 11y ago
        I think you underestimate how hard this is, especially since your suggested solution would be a maintenance nightmare. Also the problem isn't so bad to invest the non-trivial amount of time in it to fix it.