NSR: Attaching link not working

un_designer · Post by **un_designer** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:11 pm

i was trying to post a link in a thread and am seeing this:

http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html ... ns/fly-150

according to the instructions that should've made the link a link, but it's not. what am i doing wrong? thx.

jmazza · Post by **jmazza** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:24 pm

Hmmm... let me see if it works for me:

http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html ... ns/fly-150

how about this way

Weird- I'll PM Eric about it!

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:15 am

Looks like the ! is acting as an escape character and goofing it up.

The workaround is to use HTML:

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<a href="http&#58;//www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html#!s=specifications/fly-150">testing</a>

Gives us:
<a href="http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html ... testing</a>

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:27 am

I was going to guess the #, but then I didn't see the !

un_designer · Post by **un_designer** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:34 pm

thx for the info. i've fixed the link now. i'm surprised that i'm the first to encounter this, since many (especially product sites) sites now contain super-crazy URL strings with all sorts of characters.

Post by **ericalm** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:38 am

I confess that I'll often just fix bad URLs in posts if I find them.

Another way to do it is use a URL shortener such as is.gd. They always give back "clean" links.