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(@wristshot)
16 years, 8 months ago
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!
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.
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”.
