Long URLs broken in emails: How to put a tinyurl on your browser's toolbar

[Guest guest]

you can also cut and paste the entire URL into your browser and delete any

spaces. URLs never have spaces between characters. Sorry, the line breaking is

out of my control. In most cases, the URLs I send are also posted to my blog as

text links and they all work there. Also, the blog is publicly accessible in

case your family, friends, or patients might be interested:

 

http://.org/healthblogger.html

 

 

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" " <

> Hi All,

>

> List members sometimes post links to useful articles that have very long

> URLs.

>

> Long urls may break into two or more lines of text within emails. When one

> clicks on the url in the email, only the first part is sent to one's browser

> search panel, so a message " page not found " comes back.

>

> To ensure that the complete address is clickable, you can use tinyurl to

> reduce a long url to a very short one. See: http://tinyurl.com/#toolbar and

> follow the directions in the lower half of the page.

>

> When you have the Tinyurl link in your Links button on your browser, and

> you have a webpage with a long address open, click on your browser's

> Links button, find the Tinyurl link there, and click on it.

>

> This returns a unique tinyurl for that page. Highlight THAT url. Then copy

> [CTRL C) it, and paste [CTRL V) it into your email message or other

> document.

>

> Best regards,

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

 

List members sometimes post links to useful articles that have very long

URLs.

 

Long urls may break into two or more lines of text within emails. When one

clicks on the url in the email, only the first part is sent to one's browser

search panel, so a message " page not found " comes back.

 

To ensure that the complete address is clickable, you can use tinyurl to

reduce a long url to a very short one. See: http://tinyurl.com/#toolbar and

follow the directions in the lower half of the page.

 

When you have the Tinyurl link in your Links button on your browser, and

you have a webpage with a long address open, click on your browser's

Links button, find the Tinyurl link there, and click on it.

 

This returns a unique tinyurl for that page. Highlight THAT url. Then copy

[CTRL C) it, and paste [CTRL V) it into your email message or other

document.

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " "

< wrote:

>

> Hi All,

>

> List members sometimes post links to useful articles that have

very long

> URLs.

 

The straight forward way to do this is to use the less than

symbol, " < " before the URL and the greater than symbol, " > " after

the URL. This forces a webbrowser or email reader not to wrap the

text.

 

This is a standard for HTML. It also gives the 'clicker' a chance

to see what website they are about to go to, rather than just

clicking on a blind link.

 

I am not sure supports it, but it should. I will

provide a long 'dummy' URL in this message to check.

 

<http://thisisadummyURL.totesttosee.whetherornot.thiswillworkwith.Yah

ooGroups.andnotbreakupthisURL.intomultiplelines.makingithardtocutandp

aste.com>

[Guest guest]

On 11/28/06, bcataiji <bcataiji wrote:

>

>

> <http://thisisadummyURL.totesttosee.whetherornot.thiswillworkwith.Yah

> ooGroups.andnotbreakupthisURL.intomultiplelines.makingithardtocutandp

> aste.com>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

How this will appear is partly an issue of where you're reading this

message. I'm reading it in gmail and the URL was broken up to where only the

first and third lines are clickable, the first line because it begins with

" http:// " and the third line because it is only " aste.com " .

 

I believe that it also depends on where you're writing the URL from, such as

an email program vs. webmail.vs the website, etc.

 

Tinyurl.com is a really good option for situations like this.

 

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