Link does seem to be broken
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| Author | Content |
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| djohnston Feb 28, 2010 5:45 PM EDT |
In my case, clicking on the "Full Story" link,
(http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=132425), resolves to: https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http:/... Message displayed on the non-loaded page is "The service is not available. Please try again later.". |
| gus3 Feb 28, 2010 9:06 PM EDT |
Is this the third time in as many days that LXer couldn't redirect a click to a story? |
| Scott_Ruecker Feb 28, 2010 11:57 PM EDT |
Hmm...I am going to talk to Bob about this. |
| Sander_Marechal Mar 01, 2010 3:27 AM EDT |
Strange. It works for me... |
| lcafiero Mar 01, 2010 2:16 PM EDT |
It works for me, too. However, I have had trouble with the San Jose Mercury News Web site in the past around the issue of relinking stories. As I mentioned on another thread, it's beyond ironic that a newspaper would make it hard for people to visit their site to read their stories (and prevent people from doing what they REALLY want -- read their Web ads). I work for a newspaper that is part of the chain that includes the Merc. I will ask the IT guys there WTF when I get to work today. Larry Cafiero |
| tuxchick Mar 01, 2010 2:41 PM EDT |
The Merc has always been weird with links. I quit using their stories for brand x a long time ago because of their shape-shifting URLs. |
| Scott_Ruecker Mar 01, 2010 3:17 PM EDT |
There is certainly something unusual going on, but it is not on the LXer side. The URL Quoted is fake. https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http:/... There is no "secure.lxer.com" subdomain, and secondly we do not offer https ssl service. If you want I can pull the story off the newswire. |
| TxtEdMacs Mar 01, 2010 3:40 PM EDT |
Scott, The story seems possible to access. I remember trying two links in succession where the first failed and the second just worked. So I would suggest keeping it and letting those that have problems see if the links on various threads work for them. Txt. |
| alc Mar 01, 2010 4:38 PM EDT |
Works fine here. |
| gus3 Mar 01, 2010 5:56 PM EDT |
First click failed, sending me to that bogus "secure.lxer.com" thing. Then I enabled JavaScript, and the second click worked. Then I disabled JavaScript, and the third click failed. But the fourth click worked, after I changed nothing. There's something at "secure.passport.mnginteractive.com" that's redirecting back to LXer. Here is the HTTP response header: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:46:39 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) X-ATG-Version: ATGPlatform/7.1p2 [ DASLicense/0 DPSLicense/0 DSSLicense/0 PortalLicense/0 ] Location: ht tps:// secure.lxer.com /registration/?rPage=login&url=http%3A%2F%2Flxer.com%2Fmodule%2Fnewswire%2Fview%2F132425%2Findex.html&eRightsSessionExpired=true&forced=true Content-Type: text/html Via: 1.1 redline3 (Juniper Networks Application Acceleration Platform - DX 5.3.1 0) (note cleverly added space in "Location:" URL, to prevent LXer parsing it into a link) This is being sent back from https://secure.passport.mnginteractive.com/mngi/servletDispa... BRAIN DEAD |
| Sander_Marechal Mar 02, 2010 3:46 AM EDT |
I can reproducte the problem with Gus3's information. It seems to be a problem with the Adservers of these guys: http://www.medianewsgroup.com/Interactive/ They run the website. |
| gus3 Mar 02, 2010 10:18 AM EDT |
And for the record: Wireshark to see where it's coming from, and "about:cache" in Firefox to read it, since it came through HTTPS. |
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