Facebook URLs
Hi all, I use the mobile site (m.facebook.com) with Netsurf but I've never understood why links on posts such as: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11276158.Puppy_love_as_guide_dog_visit_stressed_out_university_students/ turn into something horrendously long such as: http://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkpress.co.uk%2Fnews%2F11276158.Puppy_love_as_guide_dogs_visit_stressed_out_university_students%2Fh=nAQFw8k0aenc=AZPXMdNOFY5jft7xFZWvoSPStvrU8djNkRBAwOKIq8doXAYlOtrL4URq2aezoNDxStaN79e3VneS85f4-L-6JTw51xN-2OHAu0rap3MdNZz-WZ3zgb6exV5wlYZX11ZMveZkJNiouE27lobN2iqq4ZGWs=1 and a subsequent blank page when you click on them in Netsurf. Above example is purely for illustration, not that I usually surf the internet for puppies or even the York press ! Is this a Netsurf peculiarity or a Facebook one? If the latter, is there a workaround? You don't seem to be able to highlight and copy just the URL without activating it. thanks Chris. --
Re: Facebook URLs
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:41:52PM +, Cristopher Dewhurst wrote: Is this a Netsurf peculiarity or a Facebook one? If the latter, is there a workaround? You don't seem to be able to highlight and copy just the URL without activating it. A Facebook one. They want to know who follows your link, so they proxy it. B.
Re: Facebook URLs
On 13 Jun 2014 as I do recall, Cristopher Dewhurst wrote: Hi all, I use the mobile site (m.facebook.com) with Netsurf but I've never understood why links on posts such as: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11276158.Puppy_love_as_guide_dog_visit_stressed_out_university_students/ turn into something horrendously long such as: http://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkpress.co.uk%2Fnews%2F11276158.Puppy_love_as_guide_dogs_visit_stressed_out_university_students%2Fh=nAQFw8k0aenc=AZPXMdNOFY5jft7xFZWvoSPStvrU8djNkRBAwOKIq8doXAYlOtrL4URq2aezoNDxStaN79e3VneS85f4-L-6JTw51xN-2OHAu0rap3MdNZz-WZ3zgb6exV5wlYZX11ZMveZkJNiouE27lobN2iqq4ZGWs=1 and a subsequent blank page when you click on them in Netsurf. Above example is purely for illustration, not that I usually surf the internet for puppies or even the York press ! What really puzzles me is that *occasionally* the links work and take you to the intended(?) 'redirecting' page and thence to their destination. But I've never been able to establish what the triggering factor is. -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Neuroses are red, Melancholia's blue I'm schizophrenic, What are you?
Re: Facebook URLs
On 13 Jun 2014 Rob Kendrick wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:41:52PM +, Cristopher Dewhurst wrote: Is this a Netsurf peculiarity or a Facebook one? If the latter, is there a workaround? You don't seem to be able to highlight and copy just the URL without activating it. A Facebook one. They want to know who follows your link, so they proxy it. Exactly. Google does the same. The workaround is to save the link as text, extract the embedded URL and replace the escaped characters (%2F = / and 3A = : in your example). Once you get to the unescaped ampersand it and all the rest is Facebook garbage which you can delete. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
