Aol is now unencoding url redirects for their webmail clients.
The problem related to what
appears to be a change in the AOL web client.
Details:
You send a url encoded
clickthru link in the email, and then look for a url encoded url when you get it
back to the redirect server. AOL began UNencoding the url, so when you got
it back, it wasn’t what you expected and you might not have logic to handle it.
In the client, if you did an
inspect on the link, it showed the unencoded version, which is what was sent to
the redirect server.
But, if you right click and look at the source of
the email, it still showed it to be encoded (ie, what you might have actually sent).
From my point of view, AOL
has definitely changed something in the way they handle clickthru links, so I guess
just be advised.
We added code to handle both ways
and it appears to be working fine now.
