When people post long links it shortens them and messes them up
 

I need this fixed asap... HOw can I fix it? People will post links and it will be like

http://www.whatever.com/whatever/wha...r/whatever.zip

Then when you click on it, it goes to that link which is obviously broken. How can I solve this problem?

If they are posting a link that looks like "http://www.whatever.com/whatever/wha...r/whatever.zip", then you can't do anything to fix it. They need to post the complete, unshortened link.

They are posting the complete link.. It's auto-shortening it.

vB will take a long link and shorten the *text* that is shown, but not the url link part. Like for this post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...53#post1765953

It shows as shortened, but hover over it and it is complete. Now, if somebody just copies the text and pastes it in a non WYSIWYG editor, it will be wrong. But, it should be fine copied into a WYSIWYG editor or if they do a Copy Link instead of just a regular copy text on it.

Yeah, I know. I may be dealing with some special ed type users... I'll have to find out.

If someone post a link that looks like that, and its broken, they copied it from another forum.

Person A - post a link - forum software shortens link so it does not break the frame of the site.

Person B - copies shorted link and post it in another forum - link is broken.

They need to right click the original link, copy link location, then post the "real" link in your forum. Or open the link from the original site and copy the address.

Broken links like that are a sign that people are coping and pasting information from one forum to the other.

Ive bore witness to this happening from links that weren't copied as shortened links.

It happens sometimes that the actual link itself is shortened as well.... ive never known what to do about it.

Really? I've never seen it happen before (not saying it hasn't, just that I've never seen it happen in the five years I've been modding/running vb). I've known users to copy/paste the link when not using the WYSIWYG editor mode and have it shortened, but I've never seen vb shorten it randomly just because it felt like it.

I started a thread at vbulletin.com for an example.

The first link is to the thread, the second link is from the thread its self. Hover over the links and you will see its a broken link. That is because I copied it from vbulletin.com

Source - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...17#post1706917

As has been said, it's broken in HERE because you've copied the shortened version of the link that displays to users to stop the forum layout from breaking.

If you hover over the link OVER THERE you'll find it's full and correct. But you've copied the shortened text back over here, which has broken it.

if someone copy and pastes a vb shortened url then the link is broken , they need to right click and copy link location if there planing on pasting it elsewhere

OR copy/paste it while in WYSIWIG mode like this:

**** copy/pasted from above

The first link is to the thread, the second link is from the thread its self. Hover over the links and you will see its a broken link. That is because I copied it from vbulletin.com

Source - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...17#post1706917

copy/pasted from vb.com:

I need to borrow a thread for an example https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...47#post1766047

If someone copies the post you made, and paste it into another forum, the link will be broken because it will contain ......... instead of the full URL.


_Ryfe_ if someone post those types of urls in your forum, that just means they copied them from another site.

If their post contains more content then just a link, you could be looking at copyright issues. And then there is a duplicate content penalty from google.

The people that are doing that kind of stuff - tell them to stop. They need to provide a link to the source where they got the information..

NO IT WON'T!!!!

It has to do with whether you paste it into an editor in WYSIWYG mode. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether the url is from another forum or not.

I'am a little confused.

If I post a shortened url in the standard editor, it breaks the url.

In quick reply, posting a copied url with ..... breaks the URL.

But if you use the WYSIWYG editor, and paste a URL with .... the URL does not break?

Because I copied that url from vbulletin.com with ..... in it, pasted it into the quick reply box, and when I posted it, the URL broke.

In my quote above, I copy/pasted the post from vb.com. I did so while using the WYSIWYG editor which I use on both sites. All I did was select the text, copy, then paste, and as you can see, the link is not broken.

And I used the quick reply box.

That might be the reason why your links worked, and mine were broken. I do not use the WYSIWYG editor, but prefer the standard editor with extra formatting controls.

Maybe the answer to the original question is to set the members to the WYSIWYG editor, instead of the standard editor - and disable quick reply.

I did use Quick Reply. I used my mouse to highlight the text as seen over there (I didn't hit Quote or anything, just highlighted it as is), went apple + c (to copy), put my cursor in the Quick Reply box here, went apple + v (paste) and Post Quick Reply. I have the WYSIWYG editor set up to use in Quick Reply here.

So as long as they use the WYSIWYG editor - regardless if its in post reply or quick reply - the link should come out ok.

Correct. As long as the link was OK to begin with, of course.