The Searches.GetByUrl method does not retrieve the correct URL after you enable the "Map Channel Names to Host Header Names" option in Content Management Server 2002 (887530)

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, add the following Microsoft Visual C# script to the module that is configured with the Searches.GetByUrl method.

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private bool MapChannelToHostHeaderEnabled(CmsContext ctx)
{
return (ctx.RootChannel.UrlModePublished == "http://Channels/");
}

private ChannelItem EnhancedGetByUrl(CmsContext ctx, string Url)
{
if (MapChannelToHostHeaderEnabled(ctx))
{
string Path = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(Url);
Path = Path.Replace("http://","/Channels/");
if (!Path.StartsWith("/Channels/"))
Path = "/Channels/"+HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host+Path;
if (Path.EndsWith(".htm"));
Path = Path.Substring(0,Path.Length-4);
if (Path.EndsWith("/"))
Path = Path.Substring(0,Path.Length-1);
return (ChannelItem)(ctx.Searches.GetByPath(Path));
}
else
return ctx.Searches.GetByUrl(Url);
}