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Truncated Links to www.originaltrilogy.com are coming up with an error.

When posting links outside the forum, I typically truncate the link so that if someone updates a title it won't screw up the link. (great feature, so helpful, since you an update the title internally, but not mess up outside links.) For Instance:

Full Current Link:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Thee-Backslacpkping-With-Media-Pol-Mis-Report-Wallpapr/topic/7758/

Truncated Link:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/topic/7758/

 

but this truncted link to: (with www.)

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/topic/7758/

 

Error:

 

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.

 

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This looks related to my post about www.originaltrilogy.com/forum not working.

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TV's Frink said:

This looks related to my post about www.originaltrilogy.com/forum not working.

That's exactly what it is.

By the way, none, the topic title can change and it won't hurt the functionality of the link. The software only looks at the forum/category/topic ID when pulling the data, and it's also smart enough to recognize when the topic title has changed from what's requested in the link and redirect the user to the proper URL. There's no need to truncate it. Actually, you hurt our search engine rankings by removing that text because keywords in the URL are a factor in page rank.

Check out this URL and how it redirects you to the proper page:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/This-topic-has-nothing-to-do-with-Care-Bears-and-My-Pretty-Pony/topic/10814/

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