No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

[pmak0]

When I try to post to a vBulletin forum using the lynx web browser, I get the error message "No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster".

Does anyone know why? Is it caused by a bug in lynx? Or is there an HTML error in the default vBulletin template that normal web browsers ignore?

[George L]

does the same happen in IE or Netscape?

it could just be an admin or mod merging and removing that thread id with another

[pmak0]

This error occurs for posting a new thread.

I've tried it both on g17.com (GeekVillage.com forums) and animeglobe.com/ubb.

[George L]

Originally posted by pmak0
This error occurs for posting a new thread.

I've tried it both on g17.com (GeekVillage.com forums) and animeglobe.com/ubb.

hmm since i'm at steve's forum as well, i suppose it's your lynx browser

[pmak0]

> hmm since i'm at steve's forum as well, i suppose it's your lynx browser

Either that, or there is a syntax error in the HTML code of the default vBulletin templates, which most browsers will automatically fix (but aren't required to, according to the W3C HTML standard), but lynx does not.

[Mike Sullivan]

Actually, I'm thinking it might be the <form> encoding type ("enctype" attribute) that's required for attachments.

Do you have access to a site that can remove that in the newthread/newreply templates?

[pmak0]

Ok, I just tried playing around with the animeglobe.com/ubb/ forum.

I didn't actually edit the template; what I did was I downloaded the HTML page, added a BASE HREF tag, removed the ENCTYPE attribute of the FORM tag, then used it to post a message. It worked.

I also did a test post on this forum (sorry, it wouldn't let me delete it after I posted... it's at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?postid=145717 ) without removing the ENCTYPE attribute and it worked, so I think there's some difference between the template on this forum, and the templates on g17.com and animeglobe.com/ubb.

[Mike Sullivan]

Your test message appears empty though -- should it've been?

[pmak0]

No, it wasn't empty... I just edited it afterwards trying to get rid of it.

[James Cridland]

You may wish to check http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=23834 for a fix for this - it is just a case of removing the ENCTYPE tag.

This will break attachments, though (not a big problem for this administrator, but might be for you.)