How does one enter URLs with a title in a forum post? Thread poster: Riccardo Schiaffino
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How does one enter URLs with a title in a forum post?
I find that sometime if I use the (url=address)title(/url) syntax (where the parenteses actually represent square brackets) it works, and sometimes it doesn't especially if the url i wanted to link to has spaces in it.
I tried to search the FAQs and even the forums, but have not found any clear explanation.
[Edited at 2006-08-15 23:08]
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Vito Smolej
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SITE LOCALIZER | an answer to a different question, but | Aug 15, 2006 |
it may work...
How does one enter URLs with a title in a forum post?
what about using tinyURL? Then the probability of some strange character kicking in is much lower.
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Riccardo Schiaffino 
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TOPIC STARTER | Let's try it | Aug 15, 2006 |
Vito Smolej wrote:
what about using tinyURL? Then the probability of some strange character kicking in is much lower.
Let's se if this link now works.
Yes: seems to be working OK, while a long url to the same place apparently does not work.
Vito: thank you very much for the useful suggestion.
Site staff: any suggestion? Is this a bug?
[Edited at 2006-08-15 23:27]
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Percy Balemans (X)
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URLs aren't really supposed to contain spaces. Try replacing each space with %20, the "URL code" for a space, that might solve the problem.
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Riccardo Schiaffino
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Actually, I think that the problem is created by the %20: if you click on the link above (the one that does not work properly), you'll get to a blogger "site not found" page, but the url contains the correct address, only with the spaces not resolved correctly (showing instead "%20").
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Percy Balemans (X)
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| Is the space correct? | Aug 16, 2006 |
Riccardo Schiaffino wrote:
Actually, I think that the problem is created by the %20: if you click on the link above (the one that does not work properly), you'll get to a blogger "site not found" page, but the url contains the correct address, only with the spaces not resolved correctly (showing instead "%20").
When I copy the URL and remove the %20 (and thus the space), the link does work for me. Are you sure it's supposed to contain a space? When I click on the tinyURL link, the URL shown in the address bar doesn't contain a space either.
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Riccardo Schiaffino
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[Edited at 2006-08-16 00:14]
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Riccardo Schiaffino
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TOPIC STARTER | You are right, but the space is created by the ProZ "Topic Body" box | Aug 16, 2006 |
Percy Balemans wrote:
When I copy the URL and remove the %20 (and thus the space), the link does work for me. Are you sure it's supposed to contain a space? When I click on the tinyURL link, the URL shown in the address bar doesn't contain a space either.
you are correct that there is no space in the original url: apparently it is an artifact of the wrap function of the "Topic body" box in ProZ: The text get wrapped at the dash in the Url, and apparently a spurious space gets added.
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Hynek Palatin
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This is a test using HTML syntax:
link
This works. The syntax is:
<a href="the full URL">the title</a>
[Edited at 2006-08-16 06:52]
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Riccardo Schiaffino
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Hynek Palatin wrote: This is a test using HTML syntax: link
Let me try, since in the past this didn't work for me:
test
It works, but at this point I'm really puzzled, since in the past I tried to just use regular html syntax, with strange results (it usually seemed to link back to the post).
Thanks to everybody for the suggestions!
[Edited at 2006-08-16 14:41]
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