Help with understanding URL code?
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I’m really hoping that someone can help me to understand this. I have had a “blog playlist” at Imeem.com for quite some time that allows readers to play the music that goes with the lyrics I often write posts around. If you click on “The I Want Ice Water Playlist” link in my sidebar you can see it. Note the redirect by way of google and the URL that is eventually reached, as these are the point of my question.
If you’ll look further down my sidebar, you’ll see where I have temporarily re-added the coding that I used prior to the current version. The link titled “The Music To The Lyrics” is what I used because I didn’t know how to get the full page to come up without having it require a login to use the playlist. The link titled “Blog Playlist” is what is left after WP strips out the parts of the embed code that it doesn’t like. As you can see, this link brings up the full playlist just as my current approach does, but requires a login. The URLs are the same!
You can look at the Blogger copy of my blog to see what the embedded playlist looks like: http://iwanticewater.blogspot.com/
Now to my confusion. I derived the current approach (“The I Want Ice Water Playlist”) after attempting to create a Google Site page with the full embedded playlist on it that I could link to. Unfortunately, my Google Site page rejected the embed as well (Blogger OK, Google Sites not OK?) – but in a different way. The “Blog Playlist” link that it left got me to the playlist page without requiring a login! It is that link that I copied for my current approach. But I have three problems with the URL code:
First: The redirect makes me nervous about the future, and
Second: I still don’t understand why it gets readers in without requiring a login, and
Third: That’s because the actual code looks like this: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imeem.com%2Fpeople%2FmfvuRDq%2Fplaylist%2FKtMG18Du%2Fblog-playlist-music-playlist%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdIumbZdogcKCCmySlSz0DuEDQzUgI’ve been able to translate this to where I think it’s just the URL with &sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdIumbZdogcKCCmySlSz0DuEDQzUg stuck on the end. But when I tried that as a URL I got an error. Can someone explain this to me? I hate not understanding!
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Sorry, forgot to mention that I used the target=”blank” coding in my actual text widgets.
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All that garbage after the URL means something to Google. What, I do not know. The one thing that is obvious is that the google redirect is bypassing the imeem login somehow.
What is in the blogger blog is a player/playlist widget of some sort, and would require either flash, javascript, or both to accomplish and that is not allowed here.
Anytime you see flash, flashplayer, .swf, javascript, script, embed, .js, object, and probably others I didn’t think of in the code, it isn’t going to work here. WordPress is very security conscious, and as such there are things that simply are not allowed here: http://support.wordpress.com/code/ .
All that code is a Google mystery, and will likely remain so for eternity.
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Yeah I knew the embed stuff wouldn’t work here. I had the same problem with Playlist.com, but at least I could open it in a separate window with no problem – Until my songs started disappearing off the playlist! Which is why I switched to Imeem.com. All of this has been an attempt to get the same benefit from the Imeem playlist. I got no help whatsoever from the Imeem forums and I’m hesitant to even try on the Blogger forums. Thanks anyway.
You don’t know of any tutorial type sites I can go to where I might learn to figure this stuff out do you?
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No I don’t. There might be two sites with exactly the same stuff in the URL’s, but they would mean totally different stuff, because each website/designer assigns those “things” different values. It’s apples and oranges.
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That’s too bad. There’s got to be some sort of general forums out there where people discuss this sort of thing. Well, thanks anyway.
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