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Broken TinyURL link glitch
« on: October 16, 2010, 03:17:17 pm »
Quote from: OmnomIRC
[13:12:47] (O) New post by MRide in What is your signature? http://tinyurl.com/27mza86#msg74921

I found this in one of SpyBot's posts, which seemed fine but became a broken link. If this link had redirected to some other site, it could have been bad...

EDIT: Weird, it seems to work for some people, but not everyone...

Quote from: OmnomIRC
[13:13:37] <Deep Thought> Weird...
[13:13:41] <Deep Thought> Another broken link.
[13:14:00] <calcdude> what link's broken?
[13:14:13] <@Luther> yeah that link works fine for me
[13:14:31] <ASHBAD_ALVIN> same
[13:14:32] <calcdude> fine for me, too
[13:15:02] <+Ikkerens> not for me
[13:15:13] <calcdude> ... weird...
« Last Edit: October 16, 2010, 03:22:15 pm by Deep Thought »




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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 03:18:06 pm »
Weird, it works fine for me....

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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2010, 03:18:20 pm »
That link works fine for me...

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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2010, 03:18:35 pm »
It worked fine for me and others... ???
Edit: ninja'd. twice. :P
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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2010, 03:18:53 pm »
Edited first post. It doesn't work for me, for some reason...




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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2010, 03:19:14 pm »
what error does it give?

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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2010, 03:19:17 pm »
I see, so it replaces the # with a .

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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2010, 03:20:41 pm »
Hmm, and an even weirder glitch: For a moment there, SpyBot stopped tinyurl'ing the links...

Quote from: OmnomIRC
[13:16:01] (O) New post by Deep Thought in Broken TinyURL link glitch (mi http://tinyurl.com/279qym6#msg74922
[13:16:07] (O) New post by MRide in yo everybody! http://tinyurl.com/22uenzg#msg74923
[13:16:56] (O) New post by MRide in Broken TinyURL link glitch (mi http://ourl.ca/7459/129048
[13:17:10] (O) New post by Builderboy in Broken TinyURL link glitch (mi http://ourl.ca/7459/129049
[13:17:25] (O) New post by calcdude84se in Broken TinyURL link glitch (mi http://ourl.ca/7459/129050
[13:17:38] (O) New post by Deep Thought in Broken TinyURL link glitch (mi http://tinyurl.com/27pqtsk#msg74927

EDIT: Never mind: http://ourl.ca/7459/129062.
« Last Edit: October 16, 2010, 03:24:51 pm by Deep Thought »




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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2010, 03:21:24 pm »
Yes, this is quite strange

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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2010, 03:21:33 pm »
what? the tinyurl, complete with hash symbol, is this: http://ourl.ca/7450/129045
That .msg thing is normal.
Edit: Deep Thought, probably because we were posting too much at once :P
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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2010, 03:22:05 pm »
yeah, probably because tinyurl couldn't handle the requests, and so the bot decided to give the regular link instead.

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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2010, 03:22:11 pm »
my bot resorts to regular links when something goes wrong... but I don't think it's my bot.
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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2010, 03:22:55 pm »
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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch (might be the same as the 3362 glitch)
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2010, 03:23:04 pm »
Darn, and again, the link to this post didn't work...

Maybe it's a problem with TinyURL, seeing as several of their links work for some people but not others?




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Re: Broken TinyURL link glitch
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2010, 03:23:29 pm »
Maybe Netham borrowed some ideas? :D