The link below fails because the "(" character is being changed to "[" in the underlying URL for some unknown reason. Is there some technique to prevent this that I don't know?
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Don't copy and past the link into your message. Use the "link" command when you type the message. The icon for this looks like the link of a chain.
First type "here is the link", then highlight it with your cursor (click and drag over the text), with the text highlighted click on the link icon, then paste the URL into the window that pops open.
Stu
OK, that didn't work. Even in the link function it changes it to a square bracket. This now exceeds my knowledge on the topic. Sorry.
Stu
First, go to the webpage to which you refer in your post. In the address bar of that webpage, highlight and then click copy. Come back to the forum to make your post. Type the copy you want and then you have two ways you can do this: Either paste the entire address/link or if you want to do it like I did above, just type and then highlight the word or words you want to use for the link, click on the insert/edit link symbol above and then paste the copy you made of the web address into the "URL" blank. Hit "ok" and it should work when you click on the highlighted word or words....
Yes, I was using the link function.
OGR PUBLISHER posted:
Trying again.
Still doesn't work for me.
I am doing this on my iPad in case that matters.
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NOT LionelLLC posted:
I was thinking that other text in the message messed up the link, but nope, even when the link is the only text, it still changed to square bracket.
NOT LionelLLC posted:
Your link fails for me same as mine.
Must have been typing at the same time. Lol.
Oh well, not going to lose sleep over it.
Greg,
When I copy the proper link from another browser window and paste it here into OGR Forum, it looks right in my Forum post, when once I click on the post and a new window pops up, it changes to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_[train)
Stu
Stu,
Exactly how I was doing it with similar results.
Previous attempts by me were from Internet Explorer. Now doing this one through Chrome.
Stu
OK, Chrome doesn't like it either. Back to my day job.
Stu
You need to URLENCODE special characters which would result in this compliant link:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28train%29
I'll get Hoopla Tech Support on this one.
Yeah this is an odd one. Even right clicking on the link in the OP and "open link in new tab" it replaces the first "(" with "["
When I simply copy the link, and paste it into my browser address bar it takes me to the proper page, without changing the "("
FYI I tried it on IE and Firefox on PC, and Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on Mac. Always the error when linking from here, but all worked with copy/paste. Odd for sure!
Here is the response from Hoopla Tech Support:
...that is a result of some code that we have that is designed to prevent users from inadvertently activating Javascript via the URL, and it will only occur when the link includes an opening parentheses, which is common with Wikipedia, apparently. I was able to recreate the issue using that same link. We can fix that issue, and I've put a report into the system to do so, although I don't know when it will be fixed.
I see that the issue is also happening sometimes when users are using the "insert link" option, but I wasn't able to recreate that issue using Chrome, or on my iPad, as I see GregM was doing. That seems to be a separate issue, and we can trouble shoot, but will need the specifics of what people are using in terms of OS and browser, including the version numbers.
There ya go...
