Re: Facebook shows Topic permalink, and not post / reply content...

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Facebook-shows-Topic-permalink-and-not-post-reply-content-tp6908386p6916455.html

OK! I see what Peter sees now. It is a Nabble issue that affects IE in unintended ways.

The links are all accurate, as posted, but somewhere along the line they all change by the time they hit a browser - any browser - but it's only IE (of those I have installed) that falls over and doesn't do what's intended.

I recall being confused by this conversion many months ago, when I first noticed that if I examined the contents of a permalink dialogue on a Nabble application it takes the form:

http://forum-name.123456.n?.nabble.com/Topic-Subject-Line-tp1234567.html

for the first post in a topic and

http://forum-name.123456.n3.nabble.com/Topic-Subject-Line-tp1234567p1234567.html

for a reply

However, if I looked at the contents of the address bar in my browser after clicking such a link it would take the form:

http://forumdomain/pages/forum.html#nabble-td1234567

for the first post in a topic and

http://forumdomain/pages/forum.html#nabble-td1234567%7Ca1234567

for a reply. (The "%7C" part is code for a vertical bar, and you see it as a bar in some browser address bars).

so somewhere within Nabble's server's there is a redirect going on that converts the URL.

It seems that IE is not handling that code as intended.

Newbie web designers are always advised not to have uppercase or spaces in folder and file names. Some servers are case sensitive others are not and that can cause web content to "go missing" for some visitors. A space is an illegal character in a web address. It normally gets converted to a similar code, %20, but there is no consistency in the way the space or code are handled, again causing content to go missing for some visitors. I fear something similar is happening here.