rutja76

Just an an addition, maybe useful for understanding the bug: not only it was guessing, say

example.com/c –> example.com/contact

but it was also able to rip off added the tail of the URL (which was my main problem), like redirecting

example.com/contact/lang/fi –> example.com/contact

that is denying the localisation I had in my web page.

I had the same problem, not fixed in 2.8 either.

I ended up in disabling the canonical redirects all at once (the bug is in wp-includes/canonical.php). To do that, as suggested here, I created a plugin called disable-canonical-redirects.php which contains the following code:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Disable Canonical URL Redirection
Description: Disables the "Canonical URL Redirect" features of WordPress 2.3 and above.
Version: 1.0
Author: Mark Jaquith
Author URI: https://markjaquith.com/
*/

remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');
?>

Upload the file in wp-content/plugins and activate it from the Manage Plugins page as usual. No problem of weird redirects anymore :=)

He promised to release an update in 10 days from now. Please follow the thread I’ve linked above

Yes, that is a common situation. There is also a thread on the podPress website on the matter. Hopefully the problem will be solved soon.

Cheers