OK, so I have been toying a little with the URL,
it SEEMS that the offending bit ist the "ref=" in the URL.

I have entered the URL time and time again, letting it grow a portion of the orginal longer every time, like
http://www.amazon.de/ check
http://www.amazon.de/exec/ check
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ check
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/ check
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3821838981/ check
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3821838981/ref=nosim/ *meeep!* ;) aha. Edging backwards I found that
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3821838981/ref is still accepted while
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3821838981/ref=
is not.
So it must be this. /me thinks.

Now what?
I'm pretty dependent on B2Evo to work with amazon ...
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,

'lex

admin/edit_actions.php, comment out the two sections that look like this ( approx line 102+ and line 213+ ) and see if it cures your problem :-

		if( $error = validate_url( $post_url, $allowed_uri_scheme ) )
		{
			errors_add( T_('Supplied URL is invalid: ').$error );
		}

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*edit*
Totally off topic, Thanks for the link, but I've moved my spamtrap to http://www.innervisions.org.uk/babbles/spamtrap.php

Hey, Yabba, thanks, will have to check that out later in the day.

Uh, re your line re the link: pls clarify? I'm afraid I can't really follow of the of my head, sorry.

:) L8rs,

'lex

lol, you have a link to my spamtrap in your linkblog ;)

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I'll be damned! I thought I was building my thing in hiding!!! :-D Oh, wait a minit .. but I AM! ... you are refering to the _other_ site heh. Would you believe it :D _Totally_ forgot about that one ... I'm busily preparing my leave there (since the original idea, co blogging with 3 other people, di'nt work out) - which is why I'm asking so many noobish questions _here_. I'll see to that link l8r 2day :)

[Off: Good grief, I'll have to cross town home. All the soccer-mania! Help!!]

Hello Yabba, ok, i did the changes at the two suggested locations of edit_actions.php and the "Link to URL" field is now accepted without complaint. If I have the same URL in the text field of the post I still get a no go.

I'll skim the edit_actions if I find some other instance of the portion you pointed me to. If you have other suggestions in the meantime please let me know! :) thx! 'lex

hu, int'resting!:
the text field seems to allow the URL if I just post it straigt in (without enclosing a href tag), hmmmm ... maybe I just quirked up typing? Lemme recheck .. No, it's true!

If I put

<a href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3499614898/ref=nosim/73x460n-21?dev-t=D2WMCOIPS9D14E">test</a>

I get an invalid URL complaint and can't save. However, if I just put

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3499614898/ref=nosim/73x460n-21?dev-t=D2WMCOIPS9D14E

it's accepted and saved without complaint.
Beats me. Now what?

Thx! 'lex[/code]

Crack open b2evocore/_functions.php, find this section of code (approx line 180+)

	if( $use_html_checker )
	{	// Check the code:
		if( ! $is_comment )
		{
			$checker = & new SafeHtmlChecker( $allowed_tags, $allowed_attribues,
																			$uri_attrs, $allowed_uri_scheme, $encoding );
		}
		else
		{
			$checker = & new SafeHtmlChecker( $comments_allowed_tags, $comments_allowed_attribues,
																			$uri_attrs, $comments_allowed_uri_scheme, $encoding );
		}
	
		$checker->check( $content );
	}

and change it to :-

	Global $current_User;

	if ( !isset( $current_User ) or $current_User->Group->ID != 1 )
	{ // not an admin user
		if( $use_html_checker )
		{	// Check the code:
			if( ! $is_comment )
			{
				$checker = & new SafeHtmlChecker( $allowed_tags, $allowed_attribues,
																				$uri_attrs, $allowed_uri_scheme, $encoding );
			}
			else
			{
				$checker = & new SafeHtmlChecker( $comments_allowed_tags, $comments_allowed_attribues,
																				$uri_attrs, $comments_allowed_uri_scheme, $encoding );
			}
	
			$checker->check( $content );
		}
	}

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Hey, Yabba! That did it! Cool! Thanks! :-)

;)

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Moving to "general..." forum since it's not a spam thing.