Inserting long URL's into posts - help

[txbanditrydr]

Is there a length limit to url's inserted into messages???  I can't seem to make this one work.

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps2.py?Pyt=Typ&name=Dudley%27s+Cajun+Cafe&desc=(903)+757-9466&csz=Longview+TX+75601&country=us&cs=9&ed=EfZQf6160SzF8890XlaiOB_YmF8G4UX6tMQphRwjbzPlxXZzSWzzWSXYn.8iOQ4v5ubgANXN

[PitterB4]

That's odd.  I'm sure I've posted longer urls than that.  Lemme try...

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps2.py?Pyt=Typ&name=Dudley%27s+Cajun+Cafe&desc=(903)+757-9466&csz=Longview+TX+75601&country=us&cs=9&ed=EfZQf6160SzF8890XlaiOB_YmF8G4UX6tMQphRwjbzPlxXZzSWzzWSXYn.8iOQ4v5ubgANXN

[PitterB4]

K...  Lemme try it this way:

CLICK HERE FOR JAY'S LINK

[PitterB4]

Sonofa....

[Red01]

I've noticed url's with punctuation marks like "!" and "?" will screw things up.

[txbanditrydr]

Oh good... thought it was just me.  It's not a huge deal but I figured I was doing something wrong.  Thanks for trying.  

[mike]

Easy answer: don't use yahoo...

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgimap.dll?FUNC=MAP&APPMIME=2,208&TYPE=208&LNK=54:7&BUS=14892005

[Bossk]

This thread is a little old, BUT, what the hey!  A decent way to shorten a long url down is use this site and the url it creates for you.

Come in handy quite a few times in the past.

http://tinyurl.com/

[Red01]

You can always give it a name by tagging it like this:
[ url=http://whatever your url is - without any spaces, of course ]the name you wanna give it between the tags. [ /url ]

[PitterB4]

You can always give it a name by tagging it like this:
[ url=http://whatever your url is - without any spaces, of course ]the name you wanna give it between the tags. [ /url ]

Which is what I tried to do in Reply #2...  Didn't work with this particular link.

[stormi]

The only problem with the tinyurl way is that the links expire.  Which is fine on a board that purges its archives from time to time.  The Alley doesn't, so quite often you'll come across a tinyurl link that's expired, even though the original isn't.

On that note, it looks a little like the new board software deals with long urls and punctuation better?  Unless I totally missed the point of the lesson?  (distinct  possibility  )