+team_goobie Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I've been trying to add a related web page link to one of my existing caches. Last week when I tried it was not posting the link after submitting the change; figuring it could be a one time site-f@rt, I waited a week and tried again. Still no go. The cache listing is GC1J8VV. Never had a problem doing this before. Hitting all the accept checkboxes as normal and the URL is a good one; copies and pastes in the web browser and gets me there just fine. Any ideas? Kinda strange. TIA. –Tony Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 It worked fine for me. See, I made the related webpage geocaching.com. Maybe you aren't using the right format: http://www.geocaching.com Link to comment
+team_goobie Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 It worked fine for me. See, I made the related webpage geocaching.com. Maybe you aren't using the right format: http://www.geocaching.com Nope, format cool - same as every other page link I've posted. I saw your link and changed the listing page to point to here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher/ And the link on the cache page has now disappeared. Link to comment
+team_goobie Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 I added that trailing / for &&tz and giggles just to see if that was the problem. Nope. Tried without. Nope. Tried en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher and the edit page kicked back the "not a valid URI" error. After some experimenting it seems that it will accept the wikipedia link, even though it does not have the www prefix (it is prefixed solely as the subdomain type en), but will not display it. I added the www to the beginning of the link - http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher Which works in a web browser via a server redirect at Wikipedia, but the link still does not show. I'm going to try a tinyurl redirect now. Bug! Link to comment
+team_goobie Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Tinyurl redirect worked! Whu hu! Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I'm betting it's the accent mark in the URL that is causing the problem. Link to comment
emmanuelb38 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hello, I have the same problem with a link that disapeared when I submit my listing. I tried to put a link to a video in my HTML long description : <object height="285" width="329"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.zapiks.fr/share/zapiks.swf?file=1657〈=fr" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <embed src="http://www.zapiks.fr/share/zapiks.swf?file=1657〈=fr" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="285" width="329"> It worked fine when I test it with a html file, but it disapeared from the geocaching listing when I submit it... any idea ? Many thanks if someone could help me ! Link to comment
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