@Batchman - this one will be part of 2.6.2 - plus all the testing is finding places where even more changes need to be made to the MainLine for better mod compatability.

If you save the ANSI as UTF-8 wo BOM, then it doesn't add the marker (And I do try to save all the files as UTF-8 wo BOM.)

pyragony54 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2015 at 6:15pm:


Fast way to convert from UTF-8 to ANSI is to open the file in Notepad and saving it using "Save as...". It doesn't work the other way around as it will insert byte-order mark at the beginning of the first line.

German Files not in ANSI.

How can I change something yourself?
I think because no useful program.

I think this issue also points out that the Advanced ErrorLog Security may need a white list setting to keep from accidentally blocking 'good' bots. (Amazing how seemingly unrelated issues are actually related.  )

I'm doing some research - I think there needs to be an extra Meta Tag tag added to error pages to keep them from being indexed and (in theory), adding

Disallow:/*action=viewprofile 

to your robots.txt file should keep Google from trying to index Profile pages it can't reach as it goes through its internal list of possible pages. But it may take a while for Google to get the message that the links are gone.

You may actually need to get a Google Webmaster account (if you don't have one) and manually remove those pages from its list of 'pages to look for'. (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19113788/google-disable-certain-querystring-i...

This is why I wrote the mod - removing the links for guests is part of latter versions of 2.6.1, but it's always good to give admins options of how to tell guests what they're missing by not joining.

However, Google may take a while to figure out the links are gone. I still haven't figured out a good way to have certain errors throw proper 404 and 403 errors back to the spiders. That's what will tell Google it's trespassing.
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