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Social Share URLs
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LinkedIn share error? #659

Closed tommers-walker closed 3 years ago

tommers-walker commented 3 years ago

Hi there, using this: https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url={url}

I get the LinkedIn error page: "Something went wrong Refresh the page"

chrisbo commented 3 years ago

You need to replace {url} with a URL encoded URL, e.g. The URL encoded version of https://www.example.com/ is https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2F

You can access a URL decoding/encoding tool here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

tommers-walker commented 3 years ago

Hi Chris, thanks for getting back to me. I should have clarified, I'm not literally using "{url}" - am of course replacing that with an encoded url, but was still landing at the linkedin error page. So for example, https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews resulted in an error page.

Strangely, it now seems to be working again, so maybe it was just a linkedin issue. Many thanks anyway. Cheers