One of my most popular Drupal modules - Global Redirect - has just had an update from 1.2 to 1.3. This update includes several fixes for the following:
/admin to something like /admin-frontpage then, in 1.2, an anonymous person could type in /admin and would be redirected BEFORE they got shown the access denied. This is fixed in 1.3 which now provides you with a level of protection on private pages - especially handy for sites with protected nodes.$_POST information.For those who have never heard of Global Redirect, it is a small and handy module which will help to protect your website from duplicate content which can arise from enabling the Path module. Once Path is enabled an a URL Alias is created for a node (or view, panel or anything else), Drupal still allows you to access the page on the old "Source" URL (eg, node/123). This means that the old page Google & Co knew about still exists in its index but you ALSO now have a new page with a different name... Two unqiue page URL's... Identical page content... Google & Co tend not to like this and you could potentially end up is quite hot water (or even blacklisted altogether) if you are caught with Duplicate Content like this.
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Release from 6.x-1.x?
So, now all the quick ones are waiting for, is a release from the 6.x-1.x branch... =)
Anything one could do to help speed this along?
Drupal 6 problem
Well the problem is that Drupal 6 has lots of multi-lingual stuff in core so we really need the i18n stuff fixed first... Although its possible the DrupalForFacebook problem might overlap due to the use of CustomURLRewrite stuff...