# Problem with msn.com links **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [March 16, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682 "2025-03-16T21:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/1 "2025-03-16T21:37:46Z")
So I posted a link to https ://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/he-voted-for-trump-now-his-wife-sits-in-an-ice-detention-center/ar-AA1B0Qwo [note an extra space added to show what is happening] And the link was instead posted as https ://www.msn.com/ What is the problem and the fix? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/2 "2025-03-16T21:42:47Z")
Testing this: > **[MSN](https://www.msn.com/)** ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/3 "2025-03-16T21:42:56Z")
Worked okay for me from Edge. Doesn’t show a preview, but the full title of the link is correct. [He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/he-voted-for-trump-now-his-wife-sits-in-an-ice-detention-center/ar-AA1B0Qwo) But from Chrome: > **[MSN](https://www.msn.com/)** Maybe a Microsoft thing? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/4 "2025-03-16T21:43:28Z")
And indeed, the edit window still shows the full link, but the box truncates it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/5 "2025-03-16T21:44:23Z")
Looking at it again: the end ar-AA1B0Qwo Is that a referral that Straightdope doesn’t like? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/6 "2025-03-16T21:45:28Z")
I wonder if that has something to do with the article not being their original article, but a actually from USA Today. It works when the original article is posted. Could there be some sort of hotlinking going on that’s confusing discourse? > **[He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007/)** > > ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/7 "2025-03-16T21:48:55Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Looking at it again: the end > ar-AA1B0Qwo The article doesn’t work at all if you delete that part. And, even the share button, within the article, doesn’t work. > **[MSN](https://www.msn.com/)** ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/8 "2025-03-16T22:04:24Z")
Seems to be either a bug in the OneBox system or in the way the page presents the data. A bare link works fine: [He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/he-voted-for-trump-now-his-wife-sits-in-an-ice-detention-center/ar-AA1B0Qwo) But when you use the OneBox feature, Discourse pulls some information from the page and uses that. I suspected it was the way the page advertises the canonical URL, but as best I can tell that’s not the case. Here’s the HTML from the page: `` Fairly sure that it’s the og:url property that Discourse uses. And that looks fine. So I’m not sure right now. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/9 "2025-03-16T22:04:46Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Worked okay for me from Edge. I use Firefox. So it worked OK using Edge, but didn’t work correctly with Chrome and Firefox. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-msn-com-links/1015682/10 "2025-03-17T16:52:37Z")
The work-around is to put at “\<” at the beginning of the link and a “\>” at the end of the link.