url works when replacing hypens

[bionary]

I accidentally stumbled upon this weird url occurrence and it seems like a duplicate content nightmare if you ask me...

If I have a url with the structure: http://mysite.com/warm-or-cool
it works and all is good BUT I figured out that if I type in:

http://mysite.com/worm.or.cool

it still loads the page. What the what? what on earth could be causing that? Is this a "helpful" wp feature...why on earth would that ever work like that.
I was playing around and sure enough in google analytics the couple of permutations on the url I was testing all showed up as pages. yuck

@Brad Dalton I went to your site and sure enough replacing hyphens with periods works too: http://wpsites.net/web-design/filter-archive.columns.in.genesis/

Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Thanks

[Christoph]

Hi,
here is a good discussion on it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32464847/disallow-users-from-replacing-hyphens-with-periods-on-wordpress-sites

Since the correct canonical tag is applied on the dot version, you should not have problems with duplicate content.

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[bionary]

I read that discussion several times and just can't believe it. How could coding work in such a sloppy way? When text is interpreted shouldn't special chars be escaped? Yes, I verified the canonical tag but analytics are all fragmented. This is just plain stupid.

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