Good links somehow being converted to ones with a PHP redirect (not a virus)

Good links somehow being converted to ones with a PHP redirect (not a virus) - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Good links somehow being converted to ones with a PHP redirect (not a virus) error on your web browser. Problem :

This has happened to links we put on web pages and in emails.

We might put www.oursite.org/work/ but when I view source it shows up as
webmail.ourhosting.ca/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oursite.org%2F%2work%2F

This ends up at the webmail login page for our web host. But only some of the people who click the link get the login page; others go directly to the original page we intended. We don't want it to go to the webmail login page, nobody needs to log in to our web site.

This occurs for links to pages on our site, but also to links to other sites that we put in emails or in posts. It seems to be browser independent as well as e-mail client independent as we variously have used Firefox and Chrome as well as MS Outlook and Thunderbird.

I've tried to resolve the issue with our webhost but they keep telling me they don't support our browser, or our email client (i.e., they don't understand the issue).

At the moment, our only option is to try another web host just to get rid of their login. Any ideas about what's going on?

Solution :

Solved! This can happen if the content was copied from an outside source like another email or a website and then pasted directly into the body of the email/post. Copying from an outside source can also copy any code that's associated with it behind the scenes and cause it to be pasted into the email content. For future emails, first add the content to a text editor application like Notepad to strip out background code, preventing it from being added to the email or website. – Rebecca

E. Carter Young:

%3A = colon

%2F = Forward Slash

See This WikiPedia Entry on Percent Encoding

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