RSS Widget – Yahoo feed

1. They want to track who clicks it. No, I doubt it.

2. You don’t need to, but you can use strstr($link,"*").

Send me an ecard if this works out. ??

Thanks, Pinoy.

But why do you say I don’t need to? As generated the links go to a 404 page. The correct link begins with the second “http”.

Pinoy, thanks again for pointing me in this direction.

I now understand that the problem with the link is that it doesn’t generate the * in front of the target URL.

I’ll post here if I can figure out how to fix. But any help would be appreciated.

OK. Let me lay out the problem as I now (finally) understand it.

A link generated by the Yahoo! Finance news feed in the RSS sidebar widget looks like this:

https://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/mfool/rss/SIG=1298atj6d/https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/04/05/a-fool-looks-back.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y&published=2008-04-05

That link is incorrect and brings up a 404 page.

Instead, there should be a “*” immediately prior to the target URL, like this:

https://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/mfool/rss/SIG=1298atj6d/*https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/04/05/a-fool-looks-back.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y&published=2008-04-05

That link goes to the right page.

Can anyone help me fix this? Thanks!

I checked a few https://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=%5Bticker_symbols%5D and all of the links in them have asterisks, so they work as is (cf. my #2 answer).