Re: [epub] Re: Question about Hyperlinks not Working

[Brian Alt <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nancy,

Try inserting a space between the semicolon and "url=" in the
refresh tag. If you've tested it and it works fine in Hotmail,
however, I don't really know what else to tell you other than
it might be a specific problem with a single end-user (old
browser version or some other problem).

An article I wrote on Ezine-Tips covers using meta-refreshes
to shorten affiliate links:
http://ezine-tips.com/articles/format/20000810.shtml

A script I really love for handling redirects is William
Bontrager's http://www.prolinkz.com/ . (I'm not affiliated with
the site in any way; just a big fan of William's script.) It
uses a CGI process rather than a refresh tag to accomplish the
redirect, so you may find that it functions more reliably.

Hope this helps,

Brian Alt
http://EmailPossibilities.com/
Comprehensive Email Publishing Solutions


At 07:26 AM 1/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Brian, thanks for your offer to look at it. I am using a meta-refresh tag.
>In fact, I may have even first learned about the meta-refresh thing through
>your web site. Anyway, here is the tag that I use on a page on my site that
>immediately redirects the user to eWanted.com:
>
><meta
>http-equiv="refresh"content="0;url=http://www.commission-junction.com/track 
>/track.dll?AID=544234&PID=512497&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eewanted%2Ecom%2Froi 
>%2Fgoto%2Ecfm%3Fcaid%3D103980301">
>
>Do you think Hotmail is chocking on that? (P.S. I sent a copy of my e-zine
>to my own Hotmail acct. and the links worked fine.)
>
>Thanks,
>Nancy



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