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SOTE
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Odd Behavior When Clicking AutoHotkey Doc Link

Post by SOTE » 29 Dec 2020, 12:02

Not sure if the issue is me or your website, but it appears clicking on the document link from https://www.autohotkey.com/docs_1.0/,
generates random SPAM links to various websites.
Selection- AutoHotkey_L Documentation: This is the documentation specific to the AutoHotkey_L version.
This link goes to- http:// l.autohotkey.net/docs/ (broken for security)

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Re: Odd Behavior When Clicking AutoHotkey Doc Link

Post by gregster » 29 Dec 2020, 12:09

Afaik, autohotkey.net is an old domain which is not in the possession of the AHK Foundation.

Back in the day of the old forums (pre-AHK foundation), it was used as a repository, until it was hacked badly and a lot of data and code vanished.
So I guess we should remove that link... or replace it, if the 1.0 docs are still around somewhere.

PS: I moved this topic to Forum Issues.

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Re: Odd Behavior When Clicking AutoHotkey Doc Link

Post by SOTE » 29 Dec 2020, 12:52

gregster wrote:
29 Dec 2020, 12:09
Afaik, autohotkey.net is an old domain which is not in the possession of the AHK Foundation.

Back in the day of the old forums (pre-AHK foundation), it was used as a repository, until it was hacked badly and a lot of data and code vanished.
So I guess we should remove that link... or replace it, if the 1.0 docs are still around somewhere.
Definitely should replace that link, and look for any other ones like that. Will give AutoHotkey.com a bad reputation with Google, and various users some bad surprises.

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Re: Odd Behavior When Clicking AutoHotkey Doc Link

Post by gregster » 29 Dec 2020, 13:24

Sure. I think, at some point these links were (at least partially) redirected to this topic in order to explain: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32647
But that were probably links from the archived forums... not sure, if these still re-direct, though.

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Re: Odd Behavior When Clicking AutoHotkey Doc Link

Post by joedf » 29 Dec 2020, 19:32

Thanks for reporting this. I'll just update it to point to the latest documentation here. :+1:
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