Broken links

VitalyT

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Tried to insert this link several times: http://www.amazon.com/Matching-Inte...e=UTF8&qid=1459796988&sr=8-3&keywords=E5-2670

It gets broken every time.

Here, I'm converting it into bare text, to avoid transformation:
Take http://www.amazon.com/

and add to it:

Matching-Intel-E5-2670-Processors-BX80621E52670/dp/B0163AWD96/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1459796988&sr=8-3&keywords=E5-2670


The result from clicking on the pasted link and using copy'n paste on that link address differs, which means the automatic link paste code doesn't work right.
 
All I know is I had them loaded in two different tabs. And by switching back and forth, I didn't see any differences.
 
:giggle: What you see is not what you get.
right-clicking ->copy link gives the true data:
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...ac2a90af&libId=immihf2y01001u52000DAq57sqlm7&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techspot.com%2Fcommunity%2Ftopics%2Fbroken-links.226047%2F&v=1&out=http%3A%2F%2Ftarget.georiot.com%2FProxy.ashx%3FTSID%3D17054%26GR_URL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.amazon.com%252FMatching-Intel-E5-2670-Processors-BX80621E52670%252Fdp%252FB0163AWD96%252Fref%253Dsr_1_3%253Fie%253DUTF8%2526qid%253D1459796988%2526sr%253D8-3%2526keywords%253DE5-2670&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techspot.com%2Fcommunity%2Ffind-new%2F38157362%2Fposts&title=Broken%20links%20-%20TechSpot%20Forums&txt=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMatching-Inte...e%3DUTF8%26amp%3Bqid%3D1459796988%26amp%3Bsr%3D8-3%26amp%3Bkeywords%3DE5-2670​
isn't that fun!

There are multiple redirections being performed and a reference 'from whence did you come'.
These kinds of things are dependent upon the proxy's where the redirection is initiated - - aka you have no control over the outcome.
 
Ok, this is what's going on...

We recently implemented a new service that detects Amazon URLs and geo-locates them to the user's appropriate store. For example, if there is a link for an Intel CPU on Amazon.com, and the user clicking is in the UK, it will automatically take him to the same product on Amazon.co.uk

It will work for UK, Canada, Italy, Germany and a few others. Pretty useful IMO.
 
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