Forum Feedback Strange behavour of rank tags

[KingKrool]

well, I just posted something in general hw section about 10k laptops.
So when I used the rank tags, it asked me to enter the option (website name) and I did, only instead of www.economictimes.com.....
I copy pasted http://economictimes.com....... (my mistake)
(it appeared as [RANK="http://...."] ie the address appeared in quotes.
And when I clicked on it I went to microsoft.com!!
WTH?

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/showthread.php?p=26023#post26023
is an example.

I mean it appears to be associating the URL http://http/ with MS
(FF shows first going to google, then microsoft.com)

 

[Safin]

yep...
thats what it is..
when you wanna put in rank you have to strip the http:// part of it and then enter site

eg:

[ rank=www.amd.com]AMD website[/rank ]
and not [ rank=http://www.amd.com]amd[/rank ]

so just omit the http part of the link and it will work

 

[Safin]

and http://http/ points to no address so its googled and from there redirected to ms.. don't ask me why

 

[Switch]

Thats how FF works... It was mentioned earlier in Chip/Digit also... The browser directs you to the M$ website...

 

[~HeadShot~]

Yeah, and for some sites, it just doesn't work!
Don't have a live example right now, but there was one in one of my threads!
Will report here when I find another!