What is the meaning of the URL

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There is a * in the path of the following URL. Does it have special purpose?

<a href="news/a/h1/t/*http://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B2%B9%E5%83%B9%E9%AB%98-%E7%B6%93%E6%BF%9F%E9%83%A8%E6%93%AC%E6%94%B9-%E5%85%AC%E5%BC%8F-%E5%8D%BB%E6%9C%AA%E5%BF%85%E4%BE%BF%E5%AE%9C-062658903.html" title="..." hp="news_a_1_1t">...</a>

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It is just a regular character. See: [`Can an URL have an asterisk?`](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4644092/can-an-url-have-an-asterisk). — hsan, Feb 20 '13 at 11:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 11:51

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The most probable explanation is that some kind of parsing is taking place using javascript. Where did you find that?

answered Feb 20 '13 at 11:51

DrinkBird

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yeap, tracking stuff for statistics and target advertising etc :) – DrinkBird Feb 21 '13 at 10:43

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 11:55

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If i'm correct it is called URLmapping, it uses some kind of framework to fill in the asterisk with dynamics

answered Feb 20 '13 at 11:55

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What is the meaning of the URL

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