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

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On 4 April 2012 08:45, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry this was my fault, the end of the URL was a left over from the
default added tracking data with dlvr.it. You should not see that
anymore from @LuaLang

Liam