Long urls don't work
Sep 28, 2001 | 11:45 am
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Long urls don't work
There has been numerous posts where members wanted to link to a website, but because of the long url, they have been unable to make that link. I think the maximum you can do is the length of one displayable line. Please look at this thread as an example:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/005315.html
Is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Terence
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/005315.html
Is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Terence
Sep 28, 2001 | 4:13 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tfung:
There has been numerous posts where members wanted to link to a website, but because of the long url, they have been unable to make that link. I think the maximum you can do is the length of one displayable line.
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Is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Terence</font>
There has been numerous posts where members wanted to link to a website, but because of the long url, they have been unable to make that link. I think the maximum you can do is the length of one displayable line.
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Is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Terence</font>
For now, the best bet is to copy the URL and paste it into a new window. Thanks for the heads-up on this.
Sep 30, 2001 | 9:32 pm
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I'm not sure this is a UBB problem (that's the software FT uses) or a browser problem. In any case, it wraps anything (not just URLs) after 127 or 128 characters. It does so by forcing a line break. Therefore, when you try to go to the long URL, your browser just picks up its first 127 characters and goes there. If you're lucky, you may get somewhere within the target site, though not to the page you wanted; if not, you'll get a "page not found" message."
While Dan's looking for the fix, you can copy each segment of the URL and paste it, segment by segment, into the location field of a new browser window. That's not an ideal solution, but even a 500-character URL will only be in four pieces, so it's not all that burdensome.
While Dan's looking for the fix, you can copy each segment of the URL and paste it, segment by segment, into the location field of a new browser window. That's not an ideal solution, but even a 500-character URL will only be in four pieces, so it's not all that burdensome.
