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Sort Query Vars

Syntax: select Yes or No button

This tells the Search Appliance to sort the variable parameters in URL query strings.

Sometimes sites specify parameters in various orders but the returned content is the same. In such cases using this option can reduce the amount of time, bandwidth, and processing involved in downloading and processing those pages only to discard them as duplicates.

With this option on both of these URLs

http://www.example.com//page.aspx?state=A3N4&id=432&printit=Y http://www.example.com//page.aspx?id=432&state=A3N4&printit=Y

will become

http://www.example.com//page.aspx?id=432&printit=Y&state=A3N4


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