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Confusion about links and how they work

#16 Orange Blossom

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 01:32 PM

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 02:27 PM, said:

yet click on either one together next down, neither one works?

Huh? I don't understand what you are saying.

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#17 ruby1

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 01:35 PM

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 11:50 AM, said:

tg1911, on Sep 20 2008, 07:37 PM, said:

All taken care of.
Thanks everyone.

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 04:16 AM, said:

Been meaning to ask?

How can this be the same as the next one to the same thing?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...st&p=933522

It is a little confusing?

Seperately they supply the Link but together there seems a Conflict?

:flowers:

Not sure what your asking, Abacus 7.
I get a 404 ERROR: Page Not Found!, when clicking your links.

That is what I am talking about?

If you scroll back to My Link me for and also Ruby 1's Link it is to the same Thread? Yet both are different? Put them togther, and it is an Error Message?

Yet Both the Previous Links work? That is quite Odd?

That is what make me Curious?

Just as a Test?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334

Go to Post 13 of this Thread?

It works there, same if you look up Ruby 1's Post 15???????

Could it be a form of Malware?

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I am not sure to what you linked but from my trying I cannot link any of these to anywhere?

Can you maybe experiment with linking?

how exactly are you trying to do the links?

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 01:48 PM

Can I add a Classic?

"Houstan, we seem to have a Problem?"

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 01:53 PM

ruby1, on Sep 21 2008, 04:35 AM, said:

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 11:50 AM, said:

tg1911, on Sep 20 2008, 07:37 PM, said:

All taken care of.
Thanks everyone.

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 04:16 AM, said:

Not sure what your asking, Abacus 7.
I get a 404 ERROR: Page Not Found!, when clicking your links.

I am not sure to what you linked but from my trying I cannot link any of these to anywhere?

Can you maybe experiment with linking?

how exactly are you trying to do the links?

Ciick on my link right up the top? It works!

Click on yours just below it? It works!

Now click on either one below it, Neither works, Mate!

#20 ruby1

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 01:57 PM

lets test something ;try this ; can you try to put a link on this thread to the windows95/98/M.E .section of this board?

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 02:11 PM

Not a Problem

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950231

Now you do the same?

BTW that Link works Perfectly like 99% of my Links do.

This post has been edited by Abacus 7: 20 September 2008 - 02:26 PM

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 02:11 PM

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 02:53 PM, said:

Ciick on my link right up the top? It works!

Click on yours just below it? It works!

Now click on either one below it, Neither works, Mate!

tg1911 already explained why they don't work - they are incomplete. Now I'm going to make an educated guess about how those links came to be incomplete.

Did you copy and paste the link from the topic without using the quote function? If so, you copied an incomplete link. The three dots . . . indicate that something has been left out.

In order to get the full link path, you either need to quote the post using the quote feature or right click on the link in order to copy the full link path. In Firefox, you would choose "Copy link location" in the menu that pops up. Another option would be to click on the link, wait for the new tab or window to open and copy and paste the link from the address bar.

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 02:38 PM

Orange Blossom, on Sep 21 2008, 05:11 AM, said:

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 02:53 PM, said:

Ciick on my link right up the top? It works!

Click on yours just below it? It works!

Now click on either one below it, Neither works, Mate!

Do you mean to say that the Link I Posted is not Visable to Members?

You really are trying to Confuse me now?

I can see it, maybe my Computer is out of Whack?

Can you see what I meant from the Link?

It says this

Quote

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I believe a Moderator said that?

#24 Orange Blossom

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 03:27 PM

No, I am not trying to confuse you.

I don't see, however, what this:

Quote

has to do with links.

Perhaps pictures will help.

If you copy and paste a link directly from a post without using the quote function, frequently they will not work because the link as shown on the screen is incomplete.

Posted Image

In the picture above, I have drawn an arrow to the truncated part of the link.

If I copy and paste that:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334

it won't work. As you can see when I paste it here without the code boxes:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334

You get an error, right?

Now, if I use the quote function, I get this:

Posted Image

This link is complete and will go to where it should:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic167238.html#entry950334

Here is the link without the code box:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334

Even though the links LOOK identical in the final post, the underlying code is different because one has the full link and the other does not. If the link is incomplete, you will get an error message.

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#25 tg1911

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 04:33 PM

Let's try this:

I used my Edit function to copy your post (#3 above), exactly as you wrote it, before posting.

Been meaning to ask?

How can this be the same as the next one to the same thing?

[url=http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334[/url]

[url=http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...st&p=933522]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...st&p=933522[/url]

It is a little confusing?

Seperately they supply the Link but together there seems a Conflict?

 :wacko:

These are the links you posted, and the text that will be displayed.
Using the first one as an example:
url=http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950334

The 3 red dots are the part of the URL that's the problem.
That is an invalid URL.
Broken.
No Good.
There's nothing wrong with your computer.
You're the one that posted the wrong URL.

It should have read like this:
url=http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic167238.html#entry950334

Notice, no dots.
That is a complete, valid URL.

Carefully re-read everything we've posted.
It's all explained.

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#26 ruby1

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Posted 21 September 2008 - 08:17 AM

Abacus 7, on Sep 20 2008, 08:11 PM, said:

Not a Problem

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/top...tml#entry950231

Now you do the same?
BTW that Link works Perfectly like 99% of my Links do.

I have linked from where your link took me; which is NOT the windows 95/98/M.E. section http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...st&p=950231

THAT section is on THIS link

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum9.html

Try linking to the very first section on the forum

Occurs to me; do you have more than ONE browser page open at a time ? You will need at least TWO open to get the right links to get the connections to work, one page with this thread on it and another with the page you wish to link from on it

To open a new browser page just press CTRL and N together and a new window should open

This post has been edited by ruby1: 21 September 2008 - 09:20 AM