Are You Having Problems with Adult Force Affiliate Mailers, or Is It Just Me?

Webmaster Discussion
#1

I’m having trouble with the affiliate mailers that our new rep is sending out. Here’s the problem:

The latest one that features A Few Feet Away features a zip file for pics and a link for the video. Click the links and the downloads are supposed to begin.

In the newsletter the link looks like this: https://static.contentabc.com/men/ho...r_jr090919.zip

But when I click the link, I get this in Chrome: https://static.contentabc.com/men/ho…s_jf091819.zip%0d

Please ignore whatever happens if you click the links in this post, they work just fine. However, you’ll notice the %0d at the end. It breaks the link and the file can’t be downloaded until I remove the %0d and hit enter again. And that link with the %0d is what gets sent to my browser.

I’ve emailed the rep. She’s not seeing what I am and her tech team are saying that it must be my browser.

I would love it if anyone else out there could confirm that this is happening for them or tell me what the problem is.

And finally, I miss Quinn.

#2

Yeah I experience the exact same thing. Each url within the newsletter ends with %0d (which is a carriage return). It’s probably because she’s copying the links from somewhere else. Paste in plain text should avoid this extra stuff being added. It does indeed break the links and you have to manually edit the links for them to work properly.

#3

same here, I just edit the links, but sure gets annoying after the first few.

#4

Thank you both for chiming in. I’ve suggest she use “paste without formatting” and I hope that will resolve this.

#5

%0D the URL-safe version of a carriage return. Browsers usually strip “white space” from the ends of URLs, but it seems Chrome isn’t doing it.

Basically what’s happening is they have a link that looks like this:

<a href="https://static.contentabc.com/men/ho...r_jr090919.zip
">Some link text</a>

Notice how the closing quote mark is on the next line. That’s what would cause that error.

So they’ve been sloppy and Chrome hasn’t adequately compensated for it. (Browsers usually try to compensate for obvious errors to improve the user’s experience).

#6

Same here with the %0D and it happens in Firefox as well…In a couple different mailers the links pointed to old zip files instead of the one it was intended for…