Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet button fails to parse URL - query strings beginning with & rather than ?

2011-01-28 Thread John Adams
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:02 AM, JonM wrote: > The following URLs won't parse using the "tweet" button: > > "'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL." > > > http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/stockport/j/team-news-1249.html&news_id=247910 Well, that's not a valid URL. See the RFC. http://www.i

[twitter-dev] Tweet button fails to parse URL - query strings beginning with & rather than ?

2011-01-28 Thread JonM
The following URLs won't parse using the "tweet" button: "'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL." http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/stockport/j/team-news-1249.html&news_id=247910 I expect this is because the string has an ampersand "&" rather than a question mark "?" before the first GET vari

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet button fails to parse URL

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks for letting us know about this John, i've let the team know so they can fix it. Best, Matt On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:29 AM, John wrote: > Hello, > > When I try and populate a Tweet button link with a data-url attribute > of the form: > http://www.wordnik.com/thesaurus/hen#w1=bird&w2=fowl

[twitter-dev] Tweet button fails to parse URL

2010-08-25 Thread John
Hello, When I try and populate a Tweet button link with a data-url attribute of the form: http://www.wordnik.com/thesaurus/hen#w1=bird&w2=fowl I get the message: "'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL." I first thought I needed to escape the ampersand, but after trying every conceivable w