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		veritas on March 12, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 37Signals: Getting Real Oops... thanks. Wish the system checked for duplicate URLs on submission.

danielha on March 12, 2007 [–]

It does. The URLs submitted slightly differ.

bootload on March 12, 2007 | [–]

yes by 'index.php'. So the point on checking 'slightly similiar' urls is valid. A simple regex on 'index.foo' (path) after the http://news.ycombinator.com (authority) could pick this up.

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