HTML not working in Yahoo Messenger

[rkerkenb]

This happening to you? If so, what's the fix?

Friend1: Did you get the link I sent you?
Friend2: What link?
Friend1: Dude, I just sent you a link...it's really cool.
Friend2: Well..no link showed up on my end.

This has been happening more often than not of late. Some HTML links when pasted into a Messenger window are not showing up on the other end. The only way around this problem that I and my friends know of is to add spaces to the link (so Messenger doesn't recognize it as HTML) and then tell the friend to "remove spaces" after he pastes it into his/her browser. Bunch of busy work for something that should work and you should just be able to click on.

Despite my uncanny ability at writing run-on sentneces, I'm hoping someone else has experienced this and knows a fix. The problem does not happen 100% of the time, and it doesn't happen with a particular type of HTML..but it happens way too often.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[dvelez1985]

They are called HyperLinks not HTML.

[tim2679]

If you want to get technical a hyperlink is apart of html.

You are suppose to try and help people that ask questions.
Not make smartass remarks and not even try to answer the
question the person has asked.

Anyway to try and answer the question Yahoo sometimes does
not send the message you are sending all the time. You might
here some people say that Yahoo is "Eating their Text"

Also something else it could be is a program like YTunnel Pro
that is designed to filter out certain things. YTunnel Pro can
filter out unwanted Links and sometimes even links you are
trying to get from other people even though they are not
harmful. So check and see if you have any programs that
could be filtering the links that you might be getting.

[dvelez1985]

A hyperlink is part of an HTML but it is not an HTML. Don't get technical with me and don't get sassy with me either. I'm not trying to be a smartass I was just correcting him. Don't assume to understand me!

[rkerkenb]

Thanks for the info. I dont' think YTunnel Pro is the problem. (I'm not running it.) It happens on multiple machines and not just to me, but my friends also. I suppose it is possible that all of our firewalls are contributing. But I don't know how all that works. As far as Y!M "eating text"...we've only had it happen with the occasional hypertext link.

[tim2679]

The fact of the matter is you didn't even try to answer his question.
If you would have "corrected" him and then went on to "try" to answer
his question then I would not have even said anything to you about
correcting him in the first place. In the end despite what you think
or know it all comes down to one thing, "helping" people.

In this case correcting him did not help him try to answer the question.
Also, if I was getting sassy with you, you would know it. So please don't
assume to understand me.

[Nessa]

! Well actually, i just always wanted to use that smiley.....

But seriously, no need to get into other discussions, rkerkenb is just looking for an answer not anything else so lets help him get that answer and nothing more.

So getting back on topic...

rkerkenb: Was the link the first thing your friend sent you as part of the conversation, or was it sent when the two of you were already typing. I've noticed that if you are not holding a conversation with the person and send them a link first, it doesn't go through because usually Yahoo! tends to assume that's a bot sending a bad link and it never goes through.

Please keep us informed so we can help solve your problem!

[rkerkenb]

It has happened if the link is the first thing in the conversation. I has also happened in the middle of a conversation. It has even happend if the link was at the end of an otherwise text-based sentence (but I can't remember if the text-part of the sentence still showed up.)

There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when it will occur. But Google video links almost NEVER show up.

[Dermot]

Yahoo can and will block links without warning.

MSN give you the option to stop all links in pm, yahoo does not, it has a blacklist that will stop a URL (Uniform Resource Locator aka a link) that gets posted too much or labelled a threat by them, this can be good or it can be bad as some popular links get auto blacklisted after over usage like chain mail etc.

If you're going to be passing big long lightly hashed google links or otherwise i would suggest e-mailing them if they do not show up because if yahoo are blocking them it will not show.

You can try removing the http:// out of the link and send the text of the URL and tell your friend to input it manually into their browser.

There are some methods to elude yahoo's URL blaclisting just like the porn bots do but doing some of them could get you kicked off also if you overuse it.