Mangled URLs in forum email notifications

[tlchost]

The forumm seems to have problems with notifications of posts made in threads.

Here's an example:

You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "Pidgin 2.10.0" at Puppy Linux Discussion Forum. This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 612#580612

But, when you follow the link the forum reports:

The topic or post you requested does not exist

Happens on multiple threads.

[Argolance]

... I am watching several topics and it seems I don't have the problem described above.

Regards.

[Aitch]

Thom/tlchost
This often happens when the post is spam, which gets removed...the forum software links to the post which when removed gives that message

Only explanation I can think of

Aitch

[Flash]

Tclhost, the example URL you gave is malformed. The number which starts with pX should start with p=58. If your example is accurate, then that's why the forum gave you that error message.

The Overlords are messing with you.

Seriously, I've never gotten a malformed URL in a notification. Perhaps the error was created during transmission or by your ISP's email server rather than by the forum.

[tlchost]

Seriously, I've never gotten a malformed URL in a notification. Perhaps the error was created during transmission or by your ISP's email server rather than by the forum.

Same thing happened with the notification of your reply. Since my ISO doesn't mangle other emails, I can only assume Eudora is busted, or the forum is mis-behaving.

My money is on the later, not the former

Thom

[Flash]

I'm waiting and hoping for more input. Has it happened to anyone else?

[nooby]

No not that I know of. But as Aitch point out
and you know too when spam get deleted
then it can point to something that does not exist anymore.

tlchost you can give an example that recreates what you talk about.

[tlchost]

Here are some more examples:

Subject: Topic Reply Notification - URLs in forum notifications not right
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 731#580731

Subject: Topic Reply Notification - HOW TO INSTALL A "WINE MENU"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 738#580738

Subject: Topic Reply Notification - Is Jemimah's original Puppeee still available?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 786#580786

So...its highly unlikely that 3 threads had spam deletions....and highly unlikely that my isp finds notification messages from this forum and changes the link in the message. It's not very likely that my email does that either.

So........................from my viewpoint, I would say there is a problem with the forum software.

NB When I logged into the forum I saw there were 4 pages of new posts....but when I was in the first page and selected with next or the number 2 I get a message telling me the thread does not exist.

Please see above for reasons I don't think the problem is here.

[Flash]

All I can say is, if it happens to other people then yes, it must be the forum. But so far you're the only one. Anyone else? Anyone?

[Aitch]

I don't use notifications....but threads are usually of the form

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73214

so maybe this is where the problem is, ....anyone else get notifications in the form [note, after php? difference]?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 731#580731

Aitch

[tlchost]

I was going to post a question the the phpBB forum....but realized that the version number display of phpBB has been disabled here.

Hard to report a problem if one can not give particulars.

Thom

[tlchost]

so maybe this is where the problem is, ....anyone else get notifications in the form [note, after php? difference]?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 731#580731

Duh.....if the link above is incorrect we can ask ourselves:

How likely is it that an ISP can change a link in messages ONLY from murga-linux.com?

How likely is it that a mail client can change link information ONLY in messages from murga-linux.com?

If neither of those is likely, then we might ask:
What could cause a message with an incorrect link to be created?

Thom

[Flash]

I was going to post a question the the phpBB forum....but realized that the version number display of phpBB has been disabled here.

Hard to report a problem if one can not give particulars.

Thom

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[tlchost]

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Thanks....it appears that there is no active support for that olod version of phpBB.

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This is an archive of the phpBB 2.0.x support forum. Support for phpBB2 has now ended.

Note: the forum is locked.

The advantage of the topic notification not working for me is that I have less mail to read.

Thom

[drongo]

You can't have an equals sign in a valid URL. So presumably phpBB escapes it to something like = which something else (downstream from forum and upstream from Tom's eyeballs) is then mangling.

Stick a Wireshark pet in Puppy and you'll be able to determine whether it's incoming to you or whether something on your machine is mangling stuff.

I note that the four bogus digits between X and # are the same as the last four digits of the forum topic.

[drongo]

My last post appears to be gibberish.

I typed ampersandhashsixonesemicolon but it came out as equals sign.

Like so =

[Makoto]

Looks like any HTML entities are automatically processed, even if you offset them with the Code tag.