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Pink fish links not properly recognised

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eddie pugh

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Can someone help. When I click on a pink fish link in a forum post my browser gets directed to the root forum index page and not the specific page as referenced in the link.

I'm using Windows 10 with Edge - the dev or canary version ??

Is anyone else having this problem or is it some setting on my pc

If I copy the link and paste into the bar it also reverts to the basic forum root page

It's really a pain and hyperlinks to pink fish are dead

Hyperlinks to other websites appear to behave normally

I should add that the problem is there whether properly logged in or not

eddie
 
It might be down to the server migration that went on a few weeks ago, which IIRC removed the www prefix from all links.

There are a couple of threads in off topic about it.
 
Clear your browser cache (usually shift-F5). It is a local issue, the site is working fine. I have absolutely no idea why this confused so many PC browsers, the relative locations are unchanged. It’s covered in the server migration thread.
 
Windows 10 X64 and Edge Beta here on BT Infinity 2 Ultra Smarthub
Clearing browser cache, cookies and recreating the Edge shortcut link and rebooting has not sorted out my problem so far

Will persevere and see if the problem is there on my laptop and may try another browser

eddie
 
Update

The hyperlinks that I was clicking on had the still had their www.pinkfish.....prefix and always gave the root forum

When I edit out the www. which is a real pain in the proverbial then the hyperlink works correctly and the desired content can be found. Is this what you guys are doing?

Should I really have to do this Is it not possible to run a routine at the server to remove the www from all hyperlinks or is this a bit dangerous

eddie
 
No you shouldn’t have to do that, you are only doing it as your browser is screwed somehow. Delete the cache, delete your cookies, reboot the machine and re-log in. The problem is not the website.

PS I have never used Edge, but Microsoft have a reputation for not being fully HTML standards compliant. I can’t test it as I don’t use Windows. The correct format is without the leading www, but that should auto-resolve at the domain level. It certainly does for me here.
 
eddie pugh said:
Update

The hyperlinks that I was clicking on had the still had their www.pinkfish.....prefix and always gave the root forum

When I edit out the www. which is a real pain in the proverbial then the hyperlink works correctly and the desired content can be found. Is this what you guys are doing?

Should I really have to do this Is it not possible to run a routine at the server to remove the www from all hyperlinks or is this a bit dangerous

eddie
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Hi,

Just tried the link above on my Chromebook and it did not work, so not only Windows that is not getting the link correctly.

Cheers

John
 
the problem may be that you are using http rather than https.

that said, the server should redirect.

very odd.
 
vuk , tony

I quoted those hyperlinks because they are the ones included as part of a post I was reading.

If I have to edit the http to https it still defeats the object of a clickable hyperlink !! _ Tried editing the http to https and it still did not auto route to required poat

I would say something is broken

eddie
 
eddie pugh said:
For testing purposes you might like to try the following two hyperlinks which are the ones I was having issues with They are fairly old

http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=125740

http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=182011&highlight=linear+Mdac

eddie
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Ok, that’s starting to make sense. Those links are truly ancient and date from back when the forum ran on vBulletin, so since then three things have happened; that format has been imported to XenForo during the initial migration, the site has moved to HTTPS (done prior to GDPR to ensure compliance), and www. now also redirects to non-www at the domain level. This multiple level of redirection is obviously more than the site can cope with, and who the hell can blame it?! Given it only applies to a finite number of redirects in truly ancient threads I should really prune-out to save database space it’s a ‘live with it’ thing I’m afraid. At least we now know roughly what the issue is.
 
Tony

Thanks for your reply and it all makes sense to me now. At least I've learnt what I have to do to access the content of really old hyperlinks which I do from time to time.

eddie
 
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