[TYPO3-english] RealURL: is there an invalidation process for unique aliases?

[François Suter]

Hi all,

As often with RealURL I'm faced with an issue where I'm not sure whether 
it's a misconfiguration or a bug (or a misunderstood feature), so I'm 
asking here first ;-)

Consider the detail page for a tt_news item. It's converted to a 
speaking URL using both a page path and a unique aliases. With 
"useUniqueCache" activated, the alias is stored in the 
tx_realurl_uniqalias. When that page is requested the entry in that 
table will be found and thus the id of the news item retrieved. However 
imagine that this news item has been hidden in the meantime. Or that its 
endtime has expired. Or even that it has been deleted. None of this is 
taken into account by tx_realurl_advanced::lookUp_uniqAliasToId().

This may lead to displaying a blank page, whereas it would make more 
sense to trigger a 404 error (if so configured) as when an alias is not 
found.

Is this a misconfiguration or a bug? Or some other misunderstanding?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch