Excluding a URL with a question mark in it by creating a crawl rule

in MOSS 2007, how can I exclude a URL with a question mark in it by creating a crawl rule?
it just doesn't seem to work if I create a exclude rule with
http://www.blah.com/page.asp?PageId=77

thanks.

[372 byte] By [Michael23] at [2008-2-4]
# 1

Michael,

Does the Exclude rule http://www.blah.com/page.asp?* not work?

Testing this against the url http://www.blah.com/page.asp?PageId=77 shows it to be excluded.

Andrew

andrewwoodward at 2007-9-6 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Search...
# 2

Hi Andrew

Thanks for your answer.

The problem is that I want to exclude only the page with id 77, not all pages with a query string.

So yes,

http://www.blah.com/page.asp?PageId=77

is excluded, but

http://www.blah.com/page.asp?PageId=78
http://www.blah.com/page.asp?PageId=79

unfortunately too.

Michael

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# 3

Michael,

I think you have identified a feature gap, perhaps one for the next service pack?

Andrew

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