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tictictic_OnEbay
(addict)
07/01/09 00:05 AM
AW Truncates Saved Search Links  

I have a bunch of eBay Saved Searches that notify me when new items meet my criteria. The emails are sent to two different email addresses. One address is received in Microsoft Outlook, the other in AW. The links, no matter how long they are, are always received fully "enabled" in Outlook (the whole link is clickable-blue), but in AW, they get cut off before the end. These are searches where I've maxed out the number of characters eBay allows. If I click the link in AW, the search might return 150 results, whereas if I paste the entire URL into my browser, I'll get maybe 80 results (because all my negative/not keywords are in play). Why does AW truncate these links? Is there some built-in limit to the length a URL can be?

Sue



bluepennylady
(Carpal Tunnel)
07/01/09 02:35 AM
Re: AW Truncates Saved Search Links new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue,

Are you saying that the link when it arrives within the email body that it is truncated? Or is it the subject line that is truncated?



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tictictic_OnEbay
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07/01/09 11:09 AM
Re: AW Truncates Saved Search Links new [re: bluepennylady]  

Hi Judy,

The link itself is truncated.

On my 17" monitor, with the program displaying full-sized, the AW email protocol seems to limit the length of a clickable link to what amounts to about 3-1/2 lines. Any link that's shorter than that is all blue; longer links have whatever comes after 3-1/2 lines in black (not part of the clickable URL).

I've forwarded an example to your email address. Please go ahead and reply here -- just didn't want to post my Saved Search info to the whole group.

Sue



bluepennylady
(Carpal Tunnel)
07/01/09 11:48 AM
Re: AW Truncates Saved Search Links new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue,

Thanks. I'll check my email



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tictictic_OnEbay
(addict)
07/08/09 12:17 PM
Follow-up: AW Truncates Saved Search Links new [re: bluepennylady]  

After a rousing discussion with a group of people who seem to know everything about computers and the internet, I still don't know why some email programs allow only the first 512 characters of URLs to be clickable/active links in email (ditto some online dialog boxes). This limit is mentioned on many, many web pages, but no one seems to be discussing its rationale or history.

Anyway......someone did suggest a solution of sorts. Read the eBay Saved Search emails in webmail. At least that works for me -- the links are completely clickable and all the keywords get inserted into the eBay Find box (the Outlook account is Gmail; haven't tried my other accounts at Pair.com's webmail yet).

Sue




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