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Duplicate URLs for different usernames

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Old 01-30-2008, 08:56 AM
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Hello all,
I just wanted to install vBSEO on another forum and wondered if the URL setting "members/[user_name]/" also used on vbseo.com is really safe as stated in the vbseocp.
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NOTE: Since vBulletin does not allow for duplicate usernames, it is safe not to use the [user_id] variable.
So I just tested it and my concerns became true.

On the Online List I searched for a member with some custom character in the username. The first one was O'NEAL pointing to
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http://www.vbseo.com/members/oneal/
So I registered a new user with username "oneal" and now when you want to access O'NEAL's profile, you see oneal's profile.

I would not recommend using this feature without User_ID in the URL.
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Old 01-30-2008, 05:34 PM
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I would not recommend using this feature without User_ID in the URL.
I agree. User_ID should be included in the member profile URLs.
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Old 01-30-2008, 05:47 PM
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I agree. User_ID should be included in the member profile URLs.
I would recommend you to add this information to the vbseocp.php in future releases to avoid customers to use this option

vBSEO is a great product, but this issue is not very positive

Ah, you can delete the oneal profile of course. I won't use it any more, this was just for testing purposes.
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