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Strange Urls not resolving bug

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This new build is breaking links to Microsoft download site and showing Microsoft Search error that the file is not there, copy the url to the browser window and the url is actually good because such files are usually in a constant location. How can we help developers if we cannot give out redist, addin to tools and Platforms templates?
In the meantime the urls I posted to threads in the VSSETUP forum are not resolving as links copy the urls to the browser window and all urls are good. The old forum threads cannot be used as reference it is not resolving either. Now copy the above urls to the browser window and then try to use them as posted in the threads below.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/4f732c9c-b687-42c9-b372-aecf58358eafhttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/c266a1b7-3861-48e7-b237-9264be623f34
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/654c1571-953b-414b-b3e9-e9b9d241f623
On a side note the top users ranking is still wrong with many Microsoft employees currently not posting and MVPS not here showing up, note the Microsoft employees are not related to thread replies. The browser back button is also broken.So the question is why is Microsoft Search attached to pages which it cannot find yet it is breaking basic communication with users?
Asp.net MVP, MCPD Web C#, MCTS TFS, MCITP BI and DBA
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We've got a fix for this going in our next update. We got a little... "overzealous" in stripping out HTML that could break the forums pages (the ID attribute) and didn't have this case ("id=" inside a URL) covered properly.
Thanks
Matt
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer- Marked as answer by Mike Walsh FIN Tuesday, December 9, 2008 5:27 AM
- Unmarked as answer by Caddre Tuesday, December 9, 2008 2:35 PM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:35 PM
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hans, if I hover over the "hyperlink tool" link you gave, the & isn't encoded... I'm using IE8 at the moment... IE7 did the same on my dev box. Just checked with FF3, and it looks good too.
I have fixed the id stripping problem in the next build though.
Matt- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:36 PM
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We've got a fix for this going in our next update. We got a little... "overzealous" in stripping out HTML that could break the forums pages (the ID attribute) and didn't have this case ("id=" inside a URL) covered properly.
Thanks
Matt
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer- Marked as answer by Mike Walsh FIN Tuesday, December 9, 2008 5:27 AM
- Unmarked as answer by Caddre Tuesday, December 9, 2008 2:35 PM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:35 PM
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Hans, do you have a specific example of that? I want to make sure I take a look at it, as escaping problems weren't immediately obvious in the code I looked at yesterday (for the stripping stuff).
Now that you mention it, though, I could see this... If you've got a concrete real-world example, though, it'd help.
Thanks
Matt
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer -
Original link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en
Now entered using the hyperlink tool. Note how & got replaced by & On second thought, looks like the tool actually does that, not the server.
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hans, if I hover over the "hyperlink tool" link you gave, the & isn't encoded... I'm using IE8 at the moment... IE7 did the same on my dev box. Just checked with FF3, and it looks good too.
I have fixed the id stripping problem in the next build though.
Matt- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:36 PM
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LiquidPT said:
hans, if I hover over the "hyperlink tool" link you gave, the & isn't encoded... I'm using IE8 at the moment... IE7 did the same on my dev box. Just checked with FF3, and it looks good too.
I have fixed the id stripping problem in the next build though.
Matt
Oops. That was me... the dangers of having multiple LiveIDs... ;)
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer