You have any samples of this? I've hit a lot of contextual links and haven't noticed this. I'd like to see which platform this is coming from.
i have spent a bit of time going through the verified links and found this problem is actually quite widespread for me, the engines i have found it affecting are: phpfox, oxwall, jcow, article script, buddypress, drupal - blog (then i gave up after this many), the vbulletin - blog engine is working as expected.
the link i am including as the in content link (inside the spun article) is <a href="%url_domain%">%anchor_text%</a>
the engines above seem to be coverting my link into an inner url link on their domain, some examples:
- theirdomain.com/mydomain.com
- theirdomain.com/blogs/user/mydomain.com
- theirdomain.com/edobook/mydomain.com
- theirdomain.com/123456/myarticletitle/mydomain.com
- theirdomain.com/groups/myarticletitle/mydomain.com
this is basically rendering all the in content links as useless and all those above url types are leading to 404 pages on the relevant sites.
after checking the source code of those pages, i think i have found the problem, it seems to be a problem with the %url_domain% variable only providing the 'domain.com' with no http:.. ect., maybe this is meant to be that way, im not sure, the manual says '%url_domain% = just the domain name of your url', i expected this would be a fully qualified domain name link and have been using this variable since they were brought up in this thread (from memory, i think i used ur example as the link).
so i am not sure if this variable is operating correctly or not (maybe u can ask sven if he meant it this way?), in the meantime, can anyone confirm which variable u are using in ur articles (%url%, %WEBSITE%.. another?) and that they are indeed being placed correctly within the articles?
for anyone else using variables in ur articles, u might want to check which variable u are using now to ensure u get the proper links placed. i now have to figure out what to do with the 10,000's of articles i have built that are all not including the in content link now :-/
edit: just to confirm as well, the test function never shows this variable correctly, it still shows as <a href="%url_domain%"> in the test example, i just took it on faith (silly me) that it was working correctly/as expected, maybe this needs to be fixed to show the correct information used?
after testing with the other variables, it looks like %url% displays the fully qualified url and displays correctly in the test window, %WEBSITE% displays as <a href="%url%"> in the test window, so no idea if this works or not too