vb.org Archive - View Single Post - When people post long links it shortens them and messes them up

kevcj · #9 03-11-2009, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynne

Really? I've never seen it happen before

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

Quote:

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

There is a thread over at vbulletin.org about urls and people coping them from other forums. So I needed an example of how VB can make a URL short by inserting periods.

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