"Sorry, the address you entered is not valid"

[Stu R]

I didn't enter an address. I clicked a link. Anywhoo, I've been getting this from time to time when clicking links to posts / threads over the last couple of days. Most recently when trying to get to the Cadillac Ciel article via the forums. Worked fine when getting in through the home page though.

Just a heads up

[Stu R]

Just a thought, wouldn't be because of the quote marks in the thread title would it?

Here's what it's trying to resolve:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

IYSWIM

[stainless_steve]

i get this when i try clicking on the "price drops after purchase" thread in the lounge

[Digger]

Had four of these in the last few minutes, mostly when I click links in My Stuff.

[jr123]

also this one http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

It's been happening for a quite a while with a lot of threads, it only happens for me when I click on it through "what's new" but if I go to the forum where it is, it works fine. HTH

[stainless_steve]

jr123 said:

also this one http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

It's been happening for a quite a while with a lot of threads, it only happens for me when I click on it through "what's new" but if I go to the forum where it is, it works fine. HTH

Thanks for that

[MattDell]

It's an issue with single quotes in the thread topic. When they get thrown into the URL, it throws an error. You can just remove them from the URL until we fix it.

For the cadillac thread, use this: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

For caveman meets white balance thread, use this: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


ETA: I just modified the titles of those two threads so they work. But for future reference you can delete the single quotes out of the URL and that will let you browse until we fix it.

Edited by MattDell on Saturday 20th August 10:49

[ZOLLAR]

It's happening on the price drop thread in the lounge..

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... drop after purchase

[Shaw Tarse]

ZOLLAR said:

It's happening on the price drop thread in the lounge..

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... drop after purchase

For me too, can get into thread by clicking folder as if there was no title.

[ZOLLAR]

Shaw Tarse said:

ZOLLAR said:

It's happening on the price drop thread in the lounge..

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... drop after purchase

For me too, can get into thread by clicking folder as if there was no title.

Nice one

[NiceCupOfTea]

Shaw Tarse said:

ZOLLAR said:

It's happening on the price drop thread in the lounge..

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... drop after purchase

For me too, can get into thread by clicking folder as if there was no title.

Me too - no quotes in this title though

[Digger]

If it helps I can get to the price drop thread directly from the Lounge but if I try via What's New or My Stuff I get the above message.

[Johnnytheboy]

This thread is doing it if you click from 'what's new', 'my stuff' or on the 'return to topic' link when you've posted. I've mentioned it to the OP, who I assume can edit the title?

[MattDell]

Johnnytheboy said:

This thread is doing it if you click from 'what's new', 'my stuff' or on the 'return to topic' link when you've posted. I've mentioned it to the OP, who I assume can edit the title?

Not sure an OP can, actually. I've gone ahead and edited it.

[Johnnytheboy]

Yep, works now.

Am I alone in seeing the irony in the fact that this thead title could have easily been written using single inverted commas and thus suffered the very problem it was addressing?

[Stu R]

Johnnytheboy said:

Yep, works now.

Am I alone in seeing the irony in the fact that this thead title could have easily been written using single inverted commas and thus suffered the very problem it was addressing?

Hence not using them

[Johnnytheboy]

Better tell the PH staff not to use single inverted commas too. This one doesn't work either:

Link

[Stu R]

Another one http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[MattDell]

Stu R said:

Another one http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Fixed this one.

Until we resolve the issue, you can remove the &nmt= section of the url when this problem presents itself.

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1048393&mid=62323&nmt=Hindhead%20tunnel%20'turned%20into%20Monaco%20race%20track'

becomes

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1048393&mid=62323

[Famous Graham]

How about a thread title of "Blah';select etc..."?