autoretrieval of link titles seems broken

[ladelfina]

for me, anyway.
That is all.

[Janet H]

Do you mean in subscription notices that you get via e-mail?

[ladelfina]

Hi Janet.. no.. in composing a post, when one adds an outside link to an article, there're options for "Automatically parse links in text" and "Automatically retrieve titles from external links". I always have those checked, and when in the past I added links, the title of the link appeared instead of "http://...etc."

Just recently it didn't work for me:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/14visa.html

In the past the article title would have shown up in blue with underlining as a live link, while hiding the link address. Maybe something has changed at NYT? I have successfully made title-appearing links to them in the past.

Let's try another:
Our new home-page | Economist.com

That worked..! so I guess it is not the ER forum that is the issue. I was just surprised to see the link not transform as it had in the past. Neverrrr mind!!

[Marquette]

Just a random guess... but it looks like that NYT link does a redirect to an ad page and then lets you click on to the article. The forum code probably doesn't handle a redirect like that.

[ladelfina]

Thanks for that observation, Marquette. Yeah, on the NYT sometimes you get hit with an intro ad but more often not. I'll try in the future to see if I can avoid running into those.