For technical reasons, specific URLs within ClickMagick—for example, a Rotator Backup URL—must be unique and not be used anywhere else.

If you need to use an existing URL somewhere else that requires a unique URL, you can make any URL unique-looking by simply adding a random “query string” to the end of the URL.

Suppose this is the URL you want to use, but it’s already being used somewhere else:

https://www.mysite.com/welcome.html

You can make the above URL look unique—without changing its functionality—by simply adding a meaningless query string to it, such as ?foo=1:

https://www.mysite.com/welcome.html?foo=1

If the URL already has a query string, you can add another &name=value pair to the end of it to create a unique link. For example, suppose you already have this link which has the existing query string ?newvisitor=yes:

https://www.mysite.com/welcome.html?newvisitor=yes

In this case, you’d add an additional query string parameter to the end like this:

https://www.mysite.com/welcome.html?newvisitor=yes&foo=1

Adding an extra query string parameter doesn’t change the functionality of the link in any way, but it does make the link appear different.
 
 

Article 213 Last updated: 03/15/2023 6:24:18 PM
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