help. does wordpress block “ed2k”?

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  oopsbazaar · Member · Dec 18, 2009 at 1:40 am

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  i try again and again. but the ed2k link in my blog is not working.

  i write:

  then, when i click update at rightside. It will turn to

  just block the “ed2k:”..

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 18, 2009 at 1:44 am

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  Could you be more specific about what you’re trying to do? Are you trying to link to a website, insert code in a widget or post, or what? We need to see the URL you’re talking about (if it’s a URL) or the code you’re talking about (if it’s code).

  Post code between backticks, so Backtick, all the code, Backtick.

  This is a backtick `

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 18, 2009 at 3:44 am

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  Apparently ed2k is a peer to peer file sharing network. Because those have been so abused and used to illegally share copyrighted and licensed software, it could be that they have that URL blocked.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Dec 18, 2009 at 3:51 am

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  It’s not that we’re blocking that URL. It’s that the HTML security filters on WordPress.com allow only a limited list of URL schemes (that’s the part at the start of a link before the colon). It looks like the allowed schemes are:

  ‘http’, ‘https’, ‘ftp’, ‘ftps’, ‘mailto’, ‘news’, ‘irc’, ‘gopher’, ‘nntp’, ‘feed’, ‘telnet’

  You can of course paste the URL into your post, or use an equivalent http link if such a thing exists.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 18, 2009 at 3:56 am

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  Thanks for the clarification.