This was mentioned yesterday as well. Any URL that has a trailing / on the path followed by a ? will break currently. We have a fix identified, but no ETA on deployment yet.
---Mark On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Zac Bowling <zbowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, > > The URL detection on twitter.com changed. Querystring matching is > broken in our case. > > For example this used to work last week: > http://twist.to/?a=B001L0TLEY > > However now only the "http://twist.to"; is being detected as link. > > I did some testing and I believe it happens if you have question mark > after the first slash in the url, it doesn't pick up the querystring > after that. > > For example: > http://google.com/?test=1 - Fails with "http://google.com"; > http://google.com/search?q=zbowling - Passes > > We are changing our scheme over to avoid the querystring but it > doesn't fix the existing software that already shipped that the users > will start using very soon. > > Any ideas? > > Zac Bowling > Senior Software Engineer - doubleTwist > z...@doubletwist.com > -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv
