I have just received an E-mail stating that the DOSBox Wish List thread has been replied to. When I click on the link, I get the error
. The topic or post you requested does not exist
This is the second time that this has happened.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
can you post the link ?
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wrote:can you post the link ?
That was silly of me not to do so in the first place. I had trashed the message, but I believe I found the link in my browser history:
Post 176403
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
well the link itself seems fine. although the post doesn't exist. I might have deleted the post. Sometimes advertising bots posts in that thread.
Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!
wrote:well the link itself seems fine. although the post doesn't exist. I might have deleted the post. Sometimes advertising bots posts in that thread.
If there are additional posts to a thread, they will be at the end (barring some weird backup-restore issue). Thus, I expected that the link would be to the thread, not the added post.
There appear to be two different coding schemes for URLs. If the post is not present, it would be nice to be able to strip a post number from the URL and get the thread. e.g.
. http://www.example.com/posting.php?thread=123456&post=23
getting stripped to
. http://www.example.com/posting.php?thread=123456
Because of the coding scheme, I can not do this.
I realise that there might well be nothing you can do about this. I post just in case there is.
If I am mistaken on a point above, please correct me. I did not spend a lot of time trying to get to the thread by editing the E-mail's URL.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
