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Forum software eats journal links

Started by jollyjeffers Aug 1, 2005 at 9:02 AM 5 replies 1.7k views

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Aug 1, 2005 at 9:02 AM

Hi all, I've not seen this mentioned before, so I dunno if it's a known issue... but the links to individual journal entries gets eaten up by the forum software. In this thread I wanted to include links to two of my specific journal entries, but the forum software eats up the link at the end - I can't even post it as plain text because it gets eaten up (see my eventual solution here). I'm not 100% sure, but I'll take a guess that the characters being used are escape sequences - such that it's effectively mangling it's own URL [headshake] Firstly, is this actually a bug/feature? If it's not already known, is there any chance of getting it fixed? Cheers, Jack

jbadams

Aug 1, 2005 at 9:07 AM

I managed to link to a specific journal entry just fine here, but that was using the comment page for the specific entry. Perhaps you could do that in the meantime as a work-around?

Odd that it doesn't like the regular links.

jollyjeffers

Aug 1, 2005 at 9:49 AM

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Original post by Kazgoroth
Perhaps you could do that in the meantime as a work-around?

Thanks for that - will make a note to use that in the future [smile]

Quote:
Original post by Kazgoroth
Odd that it doesn't like the regular links.

It seems to be just the one that are in the "link" at the bottom-right of each post that is broken. Maybe that needs to be changed to the same URL as you mentioned for the work around...?

Cheers,
Jack

Aug 1, 2005 at 9:52 AM

You could just use TinyURL in the meantime as a cheap workaround...

I'm not sure if this is a bug with the forum software or with the way journal links are created. The &#</tt> codes are converted by browsers into the characters they represent, and it appears the characters are being converted in the <tt><a></tt> tag by the browser, not the forum software.

jollyjeffers

Aug 1, 2005 at 10:06 AM

Quote:
Original post by Ra
The &#</tt> codes are converted by browsers into the characters they represent, and it appears the characters are being converted in the <tt><a></tt> tag by the browser, not the forum software.</td></tr></table></blockquote> I was doing a Right-Click->Copy Shortcut and then a simple paste into the post. If I "Open link as new tab" or just copy-n-paste it into the address bar of my browser it's absolutely fine. But that is interesting about it possibly being the browser. Will have a go in msie when I get a chance... Cheers, Jack

Extrarius

Aug 1, 2005 at 10:23 AM

When you have an ampersand in a URL, you still need to escape it as & even if it's a quoted property of an HTML tag such as 'a href' or 'img src'

Example:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=273409 & # 2175119
becomes
This

[Edited by - Extrarius on August 1, 2005 1:23:56 PM]

gumpy

Aug 1, 2005 at 10:30 AM

when you paste the link just delete the & and it works fine.

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