I have a problem regularly with publishing URL links in birding-aus posts.
Often I report the most interesting birds seen during an outing, a boat-trip or whatever, and then provide a link to a blog post I have published or somewhere else, where further details and photographs can be accessed. However, the last bit of the link for the blog post is not highlighted in the published birding-aus post. So anyone clicking on it will be taken to the blog home page, where they will have to search for the relevant post. It appears that the blog post link is too long for birding-aus to deal with (although there is nothing exceptional about the lengths of these post links).
I’ve emailed Russell a couple of times about this but not had any replies; maybe he has been away. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions about dealing with the problem.
Greg Roberts
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The first two worked ok again for me, whereas in your original message it was split. So I think it’s to do with how the message is being created. Which program are you using, and do you have an option to use Plain Text format?
Peter Shute
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Trying again with the URL from your earlier post:
http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/masked-owl-at-amamoor-sunshine-coast.html
http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/masked-owl-at-amamoor-sunshine-coast.html
Peter Shute
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That’s odd, for me they all worked except the last one, which is intact, but not showing as a clickable link in Outlook. Perhaps the answer is to compose the email in Plain Text format.
Peter Shute
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It would help if I formatted the URL the right way. Here they are again:
http://www.dsdfsadfsdafsdfsadfsdfsdsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfssdfsdafsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdafsdfsdfsdafdsfsadfsadfsadfsadfsadfsdfsdfsdfsdfsadfdsfsdfsda.com/dsfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf.html
http://www.dsdfsadfsdafsdfsadfsdfsdsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfssdfsdafsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdafsdfsdfsdafdsfsadfsadfsadfsadfsadfsdfsdfsdfsdfsadfdsfsdfsda.com/dsfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf.html
url://http:www.dsdfsadfsdafsdfsadfsdfsdsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfssdfsdafsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdafsdfsdfsdafdsfsadfsadfsadfsadfsadfsdfsdfsdfsdfsadfdsfsdfsda.com/dsfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf.html
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URL splitting is a common problem even in direct email, let along via a list. It’s all to do with the length of the URL, and the servers the message passes through. Email was never designed (I think) for such long strings of unbroken text.
I once read that adding angle brackets (“< " and ">“) around the URL can help tell servers not to break it, and that also adding URL: inside the opening bracket can help where servers are still breaking it. I’ve been meaning to try it, so here’s a test. This is an invented long URL, first by itself, then in angle brackets, then with URL: in angle brackets. Note that I’m typing this in plain text format, which might affect things:
http:www.dsdfsadfsdafsdfsadfsdfsdsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfssdfsdafsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdafsdfsdfsdafdsfsadfsadfsadfsadfsadfsdfsdfsdfsdfsadfdsfsdfsda.com/dsfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf.html
I those methods still don’t work, I think the only reliable way is to use a site like tinyurl to provide a shorter URL.
Peter Shute
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