Del.icio.us widget breaking links

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 20, 2008 at 5:30 am

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  Links from the del.icio.us widget on WordPress are breaking URLs by inserting the string “amp;” somewhere in the middle. E.g. the url should be:

  http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=498

  …but somehow it gets changed to:

  http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=498

  The link directly from del.icio.us works fine.

  http://del.icio.us/Mahogany_Finish

  I tried working around it by using an RSS widget using the direct DIU feed, but for some reason the widget itself doesn’t show up *at all* in my sidebar.

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 20, 2008 at 5:32 am

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  Made a mistake. To clarify, this is what the actual URL is being changed to:

  http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=498

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 20, 2008 at 5:34 am

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  Alright, this is making me angry. The “amp;” is showing up between “blog&” and “bid.” I don’t know why the post is automatically changing it.

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  isadora · Member · Feb 20, 2008 at 6:32 am

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  Because & ist the html-entity for &
  I’m of the opinion that it should work anyway.

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 20, 2008 at 6:36 am

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  I am using Safari 3 on Mac OS X 10.5.2. It comes up with an Error 404 when I follow the URL from my blog (DIU widget) but not from any other source. The only difference in the two URLs is “amp;”.

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  isadora · Member · Feb 20, 2008 at 6:55 am

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  You are right, just tried it out in Safari and Firefox using your del.icio.us username and the URL doesn’t work in either cases. This should be reported to support, as it seems to be a problem with the url encoding -> http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 21, 2008 at 12:28 am

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  I have trouble sticking around for support 8-4 PST because of work. Does someone know how to fix this? Or will I just have to live with it.

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 22, 2008 at 1:30 am

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  Bump.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 22, 2008 at 1:31 am

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  You need to contact support. None of the volunteers can change the way the widgets handle links. Only staff can.

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  wondrous23 · Member · Feb 22, 2008 at 1:55 am

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  I’m looking here for a fix I can perform. If this is a legitimate bug, I’ll drop it (I’ve already sent in a ticket to support), otherwise I need a workaround.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 22, 2008 at 2:04 am

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  There are none as far as we know; if someone did know one, they’d have posted it already.

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  isadora · Member · Feb 22, 2008 at 5:53 pm

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  wondrous, if you have a look at this link: http://feeds.delicious.com/feeds/json/mahogany_finish you’ll find out that it’s del.icio.us that sends the URLs like that.
  Either you contact de.icio.us support and point to the mistake or you write wordpress.com support to add a workaround in the widget. “Normal” wordpress.com users can’t do anything about it, because we are not allowed to use javascript.