Normally, URL Forwarding (or web redirects) will preserve the pathname and the query string of the forwarded request.
Most of the time, this is what is desired. So if you are URL forwarding example.com to example.net, then:
https://example.com/document/path would be forwarded to https://example.net/document/path
and
https://example.com/document/path?param=1234 would be https://example.net/document/path?param=1234
Not all URL forwarding services do it this way. Ours does, because it turned out in the early days that this is what most people needed.
But not always.
Sometimes you want to drop any path info and/or query strings to the destination URL, because the pathname may not actually exist on the destination, resulting in a 404 error.
Situations like this would include migrations or picking up some expired domain name that has old backlinks that are not relevant to your destination site.
With "Drop Path" and "Drop Query String" you can tell the forwarders to discard those elements and simply forward to the destination URL without them.
Available in:
- All service levels
