The link validation/link checking for duplicate and similar URL's can be done in a plugin. Just like the spider_url for adding in found meta data, there is a plugin that checks for duplicate/existing url.

The problem comes from shared hosts that provide webspace to users. What constitutes a duplicate url?

http://shared.webhost.com/useraccount/
http://shared.webhost.com/useraccount/index.asp
http://shared.webhost.com/useraccount/index.html
http://shared.webhost.com/
http://shared.webhost.com/index.html

Which of these are duplicates? On some servers, they will ALL point to the same content page. On other servers, they could all be different, or more likely point to 2 completely different content pages.

Using 'LIKE' to search the database will get rid of the www.xyz.com vs www.XYZ.com problems.

What would be cool, and I've been meaning to add it in, is to alter the admin "Check" code to do a "LIKE" search for the main webhost, then bring up a pop up window of all found URLs and ID's. The URL would link to the site, the ID would link to the database entry.

Doing something like that on the Add page, would not stop (should not) stop a user from adding a similar page, but should bring up a notice that the following URLs have already been added to the database.


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