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Originally Posted by ShadMan

Same thing is happening on mine, starting today. Here is the original link posted on my forum:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=140159953844

And here is what the link was re-written to, which gives the "Invalid Item" page:

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?campid=5335887982&toolid=10001&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26amp%3BssPageName%3DSTRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT%26amp%3Bitem%3D140159953844

This results in some additional characters being placed into the URL (see bold and compare to original link above):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=140159953844

The problem is the encoded ampersand on the item URL var.

urlencode is doing it. I had this issue in an eBay Developer Application I run.

In the functions file on like line 57, add one line of code after the urlencode that looks like this.

PHP Code:

    // encode URL
    $encodedlink = urlencode($rightlink);
    $encodedlink = str_replace("%26amp%3B", "&" , $encodedlink); 


That fixed it for us. YMMV.