# URL link test thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-link-test-thread/325047>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 6, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-link-test-thread/325047 "2005-10-06T14:28:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-link-test-thread/325047/1 "2005-10-06T14:28:27Z")

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[Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-link-test-thread/325047/2 "2005-10-06T14:29:33Z")

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[Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net)  
Audacity

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-link-test-thread/325047/3 "2005-10-06T14:30:35Z")

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Audacity

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-link-test-thread/325047/4 "2005-10-06T14:32:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
[Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net)

This must be the one; miss off the closing quotes around the URL and you still get a clickable link, but the board software adds on another http:// and the link tries to go to http://"[http://audacity.sourceforge.net](http://audacity.sourceforge.net)