{"id":4186,"date":"2009-02-07T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2009-02-07T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T17:15:44","slug":"how-to-select-broken-urls-from-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/how-to-select-broken-urls-from-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to select broken URLS from e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>without<\/strong> resorting to <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/\">TinyURL.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/metamark.net\/\">xrl.us<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/\">is.gd<\/a> when posting &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Some mail clients wrap URLs in a way that breaks their ability to be clicked on. Trying to explain a method to fix this is tiresome, so here&#8217;s an animation that explains it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4187\" title=\"a_handy_guide_to_fixing_broken_urls\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/a_handy_guide_to_fixing_broken_urls.gif\" alt=\"a_handy_guide_to_fixing_broken_urls\" width=\"402\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/a_handy_guide_to_fixing_broken_urls.gif 402w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/a_handy_guide_to_fixing_broken_urls-300x53.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>Basically, it helps to select the URL from the end to the start. Once you&#8217;ve got all the text, copy it, and paste it into your browser&#8217;s location bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(without resorting to TinyURL.com, xrl.us or is.gd when posting &#8230;) Some mail clients wrap URLs in a way that breaks their ability to be clicked on. Trying to explain a method to fix this is tiresome, so here&#8217;s an animation that explains it: Basically, it helps to select the URL from the end to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[901,52,324,1481,858],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-animation","tag-broken","tag-mail","tag-url","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-15w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}