id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
8297,Comment Paging leads to duplicated URLs for the same content,wnorris,,"In order to optimize for search engines, each unique resource on the web should have a single canonical URL for that resource, and any others should redirect to the canonical URL.  This concept was added in WordPress core some time ago.  The new comment paging feature in 2.7 causes problems with this to varying degrees.

With comment paging turned on:
  - the main post URL and the highest numbered comment page URL result in the exact same data.  Perhaps the comment page should redirect to the main post URL?
  - comment page numbers can go infinitely high, resulting in the post being displayed with no comments.  Perhaps numbers that are two high should redirect to the highest legitimate comment page?

With comment paging turned off:
  - comment page numbers can always be appended to the URL, which displays the post with all comments (the same thing as if you hadn't specified a comment page number at all).  When paging is turned off, any requests that specify a page number should *always* redirect to the canonical URL for the post (would this cause unforseen problems?).

The root of this problem is the fact that comment paging is accomplished by modifying the URL, rather than adding a query parameter.  I'm sure there was some reasoning for this (perhaps dealing with caching?), but it results in multiple URLs which all contain (at least much of) the same content.  

I haven't dug into the code for this yet, as I wanted to get some feedback first.",defect (bug),closed,normal,2.7,Comments,2.7,major,fixed,has-patch needs-testing,