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Mysterious Redirections - Forumview/Members

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #1

    sajay

    Recently i had to click a link

    http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/members/view/sajay

    It is redirected me to a group called HIdden Leaf Village

    http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/members

    and i saw few messages including one of my friends that they also got redirected there.

    why? the answer i think is

    the forum pages are arranged in root called /forumview/

    there each topic is saved/written with topic head as filename

    as said groups' topic is named 'memebers'

    http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/members/view/sajay

    i was redirected there.

     

    So some interesting thoughts... what if that group was a closed group.?

    what if i start with a topic some special names like members / chess / everyone will be redirected there..

    YOurs...sajay

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #2

    Adz_purple

    i went there it was really amazing, i think its a closed group, it'll bring more players attention to the Royals if u made anything like that.

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #3

    Balachandar

    Taking the pleasure of copying and pasting my answer which I had posted in the hidden leaf group forum:

    8th February 2012, 11:48pm
    #10
    by Balachandar
    Bharath, இந்தியா India
    Member Since: Jan 2010
    Member Points: 21715

    This is because, when we copy and paste links through mozilla firefox, the links get pasted wrongly. For example, Sajay:

    in Royal Chess forum, named expert advice, there is a link for a person named Reemoroto, when you click on that link, this is what it shows:

    http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/members/view/Reemorto

    This is the wrong link, so chess.com's server redirects it to somewhere else, which happens to be here.

    The correct link is

    http://www.chess.com/members/view/Reemorto

     

    This happens in many cases, in case of links of matches or vc games or forums or members' profiles. And this happens only when the poster uses firefox and this doesn't happen in chrome.

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    8th February 2012, 11:54pm
    #11
    by Balachandar
    Bharath, இந்தியா India
    Member Since: Jan 2010
    Member Points: 21715

    Another example is, if you look at a team match and see a player registered, and you copy and paste that in a comment using firefox:

     

    Sicilian Grand Prix Attack 

    		  

    ASIA 
    polleke (2126) Belgium   vs.   andinur (2093) Indonesia
    Flier (2075) Netherlands   vs.   mohdhanif (2008) Malaysia
    Pikachulord6 (1876) United States   vs.   kingpin310 (1923) Philippines
    kingslayer79 (1624) Italy   vs.   BERLAGA (1913) Russia
    mitchellhan (1261) Singapore   vs.   ikromurrofiq (1887) Indonesia
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    8th February 2012, 11:55pm
    #12
    by Balachandar
    Bharath, இந்தியா India
    Member Since: Jan 2010
    Member Points: 21715

    Now suppose you view wish to view the profile of the first player.

    The actual link is

    www.chess.com/echess/profile/polleke

    And the wrong link posted is

    www.chess.com/groups/forumview/echess/profile/polleke/

    which leads you to Chess Forums.

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #4

    sajay

    thanks balu. Yes it happend with me also. I gave votechess current matches list to a member so that he can choose from the list. But the links didnot worked for her. So its firefox? The culprit!
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