Strange Address For The Forum

[dbminter]

I'm not even entirely sure how this worked!

 

 

I was looking at the topic located here

 

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1781&st=20

 

 

I wanted to go to the main www.imgburn.com page to check out something there so I went up into the Address bar with the intent of just dropping the http://forum part and replacing it with <a href="http://www and" target="_blank">www and</a> deleted the part after .com. Well, my large fingers hit the Enter button while trying to hold down the right shift key to highlight everything after .com and ended up entering the address

 

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1781&st=20

 

 

To my utter surprise, the www.imgburn.com main page loaded. And, yet, the Address field still reads http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1781&st=20

 

[lfcrule1972]

It does that by default I think db - if the address is mostly correct e.g. //forum.imgburn.com/index.php it just loads up the homepage if the page you actually typed does not exist.

 

I just changed a few more of the numbers etc and it does this every time.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The stuff after the ? is just 'querystring' data that's passed to the index.php page.

 

The main website also has an index.php page, that's why it loaded

 

It wouldn't understand the querystring data so it's just ignored.

[dbminter]

Usually, when sites redirect, they change the Address bar address. That's what really caught my attention more than anything else. That the "wrong" address wasn't replaced with the home site in the Address bar.