# Links Not Found

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 31, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956 "2010-12-31T16:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956/1 "2010-12-31T16:18:41Z")

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Happy New Year!

I have encountered an issue, sporadically. When clicking on an embedded link, to a website external to the SDMB, I get this error message -

Not Found  
The requested URL /sdmb/5065 was not found on this server.

The link in question is [http://tinyurl.com/23el7xw](http://tinyurl.com/23el7xw), which resolves to [http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/articles/tall\_obama\_110708.jpg](http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/articles/tall_obama_110708.jpg), and which I can open just fine in a new window.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is something up with the way vBulletin stores URLs?

TIA.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956/2 "2010-12-31T23:39:47Z")

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It’s probably safe to put this one on vbulletin. Dunno why it would have problems parsing the link.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956/3 "2011-01-01T07:56:57Z")

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It could also have to do with the advertizing scripts. Usually though, that produces an error that has to do with the ad host, not the client.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956/4 "2011-01-01T15:34:06Z")

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Thanks for your response. Just out of idle curiosity (I am primarily a mainframe jockey), is there a separate table or series of tables that holds urls, and then vBulletin links to entries in that table when the post is built for display?

Again, Happy New Year!

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-not-found/565956/5 "2011-01-02T05:04:07Z")

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FWIW, Cicero just reported the same issue in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13308074&postcount=13) (different link than what the OP is talking about).