Get Rid Of &p=postid ?

[ChopSuey]

http://forum.vbdiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=7997&p=9005#post9005

Nasty URL (i just randomly selected a thread. )Im wanting to take out the
"&p=9005" there.

Edit showthread.php? Or ?

I know Shawn did this on DigitalPoint.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It is the postid, not the threadid.

And why would you want to get rid of it?

[ChopSuey]

I meant postid sorry! I haven't slept yet...LOOK at the URL, its calling the post twice.

http://forum.vbdiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=7997#post9005
Thats more better. showing it twice is just not good.

http://forum.vbdiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=7997&p=9005

They both lead to the same thing. I want to get rid of it though.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Not really. The first would fail if the post is on the second page of a thread.

With showthread.php the threadid could be ommited when the postid is provided.
If you want to remove a postid then it would need to be the #post9005. This will probably still work, although i am not sure of that would work in all circumstances.

[ChopSuey]

Well it never used to be like that until i upgraded to vBulletin 4.

That URL in first post - Thats how it shows up in Google.

[Paul M]

That URL in first post - Thats how it shows up in Google.
and why is that a problem ?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It has always worked like that.

See for example here on vBulletin.org:

Correct (should bring up the last post in the thread):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2017787#post2017787
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2017787
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=162335&p=2017787
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=162335&p=2017787#post2017787

Incorrect (does not bring up the last post):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=162335#post2017787

[ChopSuey]

I guess its the &posted thing.....

Can't explain it correctly.