Why does this perfectly valid link(http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3112381/SQL-Server-Calculating-Running-Totals-Subtotals-and-Grand-Total-Without-a-Cursor.htm) show up as a broken link in a post?
tinstaafl 1,176 Posting Maven
rproffitt 2,693 https://5calls.org Moderator
OK with parentheses.
(http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3112381/SQL-Server-Calculating-Running-Totals-Subtotals-and-Grand-Total-Without-a-Cursor.htm)
Seems fine too. How to break this?
PS. In your example the link is to this which is not working.
https://www.daniweb.com/posts/bad_link/2212833?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.databasejournal.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmssql%2Farticle.php%2F3112381%2FSQL-Server-Calculating-Running-Totals-Subtotals-and-Grand-Total-Without-a-Cursor.htm (yep, dead.)
tinstaafl 1,176 Posting Maven
The link was pasted from the address bar using the link button in the post. Are you saying I need to format the link differently? That we're all supposed to be experts on the Daniweb API to know these thing?
rproffitt commented: That's a nice bug. +0
rproffitt 2,693 https://5calls.org Moderator
And now it's broken here too. I appears that it was fine when I posted it and just to test I accessed it from a second browser.
Seems like a cron job ran and automessed it up. It does report as broken but is not if you continue. And I can't answer the experts part of the question but I too find the posting method to be a bit quirky.
For example, I hit Preview and it's not what I see when I post.
Good find.
happygeek 2,411 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Definately seems to be the minus signs. Good find. Something must have changed recently or this would surely have cropped up before now?
cereal 1,524 Nearly a Senior Poster Featured Poster
@HG
Hi, I think it's related to this thread:
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
Posted a link with minus signs in this thread: https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/506841/help-with-sum-of-even-or-odds-array
It got broken.
Strangly enough the above thread url also contains minus signs.
tinstaafl 1,176 Posting Maven
I'm thinking the checker is biased. Daniweb links are fine but not any others :)
rproffitt commented: That makes sense to me. "fine" +0
Dani 4,543 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
It has nothing to do with how you're posting the link and everything to do with our link checker not being able to retrieve it. Let me know if this happens again, as it might just be a problem with the HTTP response that databasejournal is throwing to our DaniBot.
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