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#1 2008-03-17 02:28:45
- dododi
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- Registered: 2006-01-14
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Since upgrade newsletter links nolonger work
I have recently upgraded a textpattern site I have been managing to the latest version.
The client periodically sends out newsletters that link to the textpattern website through www.verticalresponse.com
When a recipient clicks a link in the newsletter it normally sends the visitor to the relevant page in the website. Vertical Response adds some redirection (or similar code) that allows them to track the users who click links.
Previously this all worked fine.
Since upgrading however, when a link is clicked we are presented with a blank page on teh website the says “Nice Try”
Have recent security changes in the site stopped this from working.
An example of how the links are changing are:
Actual link in newsletter:
http://www.mysite.com/content/where-are-they-in-nsw
Link after vertical response has added its code:
http://www.mysite.com/content/where-are-they-in-nsw?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20November%202007%20-%20Issue%208&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=Read%20the%20full%20%Where%20are%20they%20in%20NSW%3F%22%20article
As mentioned, this all worked fine prior to the upgrade and I have used the same vertical response system recently with other sites not using textile.
If this is caused by textile, is there any way to fix this.
Thanks,
Stuart
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Re: Since upgrade newsletter links nolonger work
As far I can see, that link is too long, so it’s flagged as spam. It was TXP’s security update to stop script kiddies.
You can fix that by updating Maximum URL length (in characters) value in Textpattern’s Advanced Preferences.
dododi wrote:
If this is caused by textile, is there any way to fix this.
Textile is just a markup, like bbCode, nothing more… ROFL :D
Last edited by Gocom (2008-03-17 02:51:10)
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Re: Since upgrade newsletter links nolonger work
It’s because the URL exceeds the max url length (in prefs). So you should be able to change that to something ridiculous like 500, but do you really need to pass all those GET parameters? It seems a little ridiculous (especially the spaces – %20s).
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Re: Since upgrade newsletter links nolonger work
Yeah yeah, but at least I’m still 20” faster counting your edit :P.
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#6 2008-03-17 05:11:34
- dododi
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Re: Since upgrade newsletter links nolonger work
Thanks to all for such a quick response.
I suspected this was the issue.
Unfortunately I do not have any control over the urls that vertical response generates. I can however turn off link tracking or do as you have suggested.
Thanks again
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