Links to Amazon Parsed Incorrectly
 

I recently tried to link in a post. Strangely, the link seems to be parsed correctly here, but for some reason in the other post it kept getting parsed as Which obviously ended up going to a 404.

Don't know if it was a one-off bug or what, but it's something to look into. I wasn't aware until today that Amazon links were handled differently than any other URL.

Anyway, I found a bug and it's now reported. My work here is done.

EDIT:

On a preview the link seemed to work fine here, but after I submitted the thread I noticed that it's been parsed incorrectly here as well. The actual link is

it's because of the ref....

people can use the ref to refer and get credit for people's purchases.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001RV01IW

hmmm.... have to look at the item again... but it does have to do with the refer direct to a specific seller, this keeps people from spamming a seller if I'm not mistaken.

linking regular items