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Guanqunmu

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HN FunctionalityURL RedirectionWeb Development

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HN Functionality

URL Redirection

Web Development

I put my URL to the HN, but when i try to click that, it will go to another webpage not the one that i have submitted

A user reports their submitted URL on HN redirects to a different webpage, prompting a discussion on possible reasons and solutions.

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01Story posted
Sep 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM EDT
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Sep 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM EDT
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Sep 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM EDT
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Bender

3 months ago

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It could be the URL you are submitting has a canonical reference to the original site in the HTML. This addon [1] will highlight that in Firefox or one can view the HTML source. HN will use the canonical reference. If it's not that then we would need more details.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canonical-lin...

gus_massa

3 months ago

For example, in the source code of https://www.puppyagent.com/en/blog/Solving-the-AI-Agent-Accu... says

  <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.puppyagent.com/en/blog"/>

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