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What are those strange characters in the middle of Pathfinders URLs?

April 26, 2017characters middle pathfinder Strange URLs

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What are those strange characters in the middle of Pathfinders URLs?

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Sometimes Pathfinder’s URLs look strange to people. For example, when visiting the Money Online site, you may see the following URL: http://pathfinder.com/@@U3lnCAUAVM7YzWGO/money/index.html The part in the middle (@@U3lnCAUAVM7YzWGO/) is called a session identifier, or SID. It’s not part of the address, but it is inserted by the Pathfinder system when a user goes to any page in Pathfinder. Our system uses this unique string of characters in the middle of your URL during your entire session on Pathfinder so that we can refer to it in our log files when a user experiences trouble with our site. In order to go to the URL in the future, just remove any characters between pathfinder.com/ and the directory for the part of pathfinder you are in (such as money/).