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Originally posted by robert@fm
(ref. stopping punction being absorbed into URLs)
(Note that one proposed "solution", of using a service such as tinyurl.com, will not work; it just replaces a broken direct link with a broken TinyURL one. )
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The above wasn't a dig at
tinyurl.com,
makeashorterlink.com or any of the other similar services out there; I was just pointing out that these services do not cure the vBulletin parsing problem.
Where these services
do shine (indeed, this is the reason for their existence) is to make a long URL short (i.e. these are URL redirection services):
For example, you might have a URL such as http://www.thebrilliantbanjoplayingmidgetpoliceinspector.com/mail/free/UK/signup/page1/signup.html; using a URL-shortening service would turn it into something like miniurl.com/ab234.html. (Note that both these example URLs are fictitious.
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