Re: Lua Users Wiki does not live well with Twitter utm_* stuff

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:10:51AM +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> Hi, list!
> 
> Twitter apparently appends all kinds of stuff to the query part of an url:
> 
> This message, for example
> 
> https://twitter.com/#!/LuaLang/status/187435092375900161
> 
> gives this URL:
> 
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaWorkshopTwoThousandTwelve?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
> 
> Lua Users wiki does not like it. It says "Invalid URL or post".
> 
> I'd say that the correct behaviour would be to ignore unknown query variables.

My initial thoughts are that the correct behaviour is for Twitter to not
add nonsense on the end of URLs and expect them to work.

B.