I was playing around in Google search console (Fetch as Google) to see whether any content was being blocked. I don't include posts in the sitemap but just out of interest I got Google to fetch some random post URLs for example:
https://www.mysite.com/forum/f1/some-post-title-12345-post12345/#post12345
I then hit "fetch" and got the result as "redirected."
The resultant, successfully fetched, URL is:
https://www.mysite.com/forum/f1/some-post-title-12345/#post12345
I assume that this is normal behaviour but why is it necessary?
https://www.mysite.com/forum/f1/some-post-title-12345-post12345/#post12345
I then hit "fetch" and got the result as "redirected."
The resultant, successfully fetched, URL is:
https://www.mysite.com/forum/f1/some-post-title-12345/#post12345
I assume that this is normal behaviour but why is it necessary?