Long URLs being shortened to oblivion? (Move along, nothing to see here, folks)

[Pete]

This post shows what happens if you just stick a long URL in our [ url ] tags: both the displayed text and the actual URL are abridged by a '...' which mucks up being able to actually follow the link. You can't click on the link, select the link text, or right-click-copy to get the full, usable URL. If you're the poster or a mod and can edit the post, then you're in business.

Actually, I don't know if eastmen wrapped the URLs in our tags or if he just pasted them as text. But I'm guessing the problem is in VBB's/our shortening, not tagging, code. Testing a long URL:

1. No tag: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/j...0-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/
2. Simple [ url ] wrap: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/j...0-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/
3. Using "Insert Link" button: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/john-carmack-is-making-a-virtual-reality-headset-500-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/

Yup, the forum adds [ url ] tags around links, so 'no tag' links become the same as 'simple tagged' ones. The full, "insert link" treatment--[ url = " link " ] link [ /url ]--also gets truncated.

Expanding on the "no tag" test and what the forum considers a link:

1a. Leading http://www.: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/j...0-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/
1b. Leading www.: www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/john-car...0-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/
1c. No prefix: pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/john-carmack-is-making-a-virtual-reality-headset-500-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/

So, some corner cases need rounding. Bonus: the forum linkifies http : // www . (and drops the trailing . and adds a trailing / in the href it creates, for whatever reason), but needs a suffix to linkify www. (e.g., www.zq).



tl;dr: Help us, Rys, you're our only hope.

 

[Richard]

Hmm... a little sanity check: I can follow all five links in that post and also eastmen's three links, regardless of ellipses. Isn't that suposed to happen?

 

[Pete]

Fffffuuuu.....

Well, that was a waste. All the links work for me now, too. Dunno why that PC Gamer link in eastmen's post got truncated for me the first time I tried it.

Chalk one up for overreacting. I should have at least tried a different browser first.

 

[homerdog]

The same thing happened to me pete. I use Chrome. But now it works fine.

Given that nobody else has reported the issue, I think it is still possible that it never existed at all and we are both crazy.