"/a" in jQuery.support causing 404's.

[simonkurtz@…]

If I understand correctly, jQuery.support checks for hrefNormalized (line 1174) to ensure what is placed in an a-tag's href attribute is also what is retrieved. I understand that IE may alter that to return a full URL rather than just the href attrib in itself.

It appears that somehow requests are made to this as we see 404s to "www.foo.com/a". If this "link" simply exists to check for hrefNormalized, would it make sense to add a 'rel="nofollow"' in the a-tag? I may not understand the situation entirely, but that seemed plausible to me.

Many thanks for a reply.

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[anonymous]

Hi ajpiano,

I don't believe I can easily recreate as the dependency is a crawler or agent. For instance, we use Keynote monitoring for system availability, and a request to "/a" is something they actually have to exclude from their testing in order not to throw 404s. I'm sorry I am unable to provide more detail, but perhaps there are others in the community, who have run into this.

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