Printer-Friendly Versions on Fox News

[DTM]

I've been trying to get the printer-friendly versions of Fox News articles, with no luck, even though it looks simple.

Example:

One of the business article links is:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241529,00.html

Its printer-friendly version is:
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,241529,00.html

My attempted rewrite was as follows.

Filter:
.*story/0,2933.*

Rewritten as:
$1printer_friendly_story/0,3566$2

When I do this, all of the links are dead.

Any ideas?

[Jupiter]

I believe the problem is the "$2". Try making the filter http://www\.foxnews\.com/story/0,2933.* and the rewritten http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566$1.

[DTM]

Thanks, Jupiter, but unfortunately that doesn't work either. But it should. The mystery continues.

[Jupiter]

When you tap on the link, and the "link not found" dialog appeares, what does it say the link URL is?

[DTM]

Interestingly enough, it's:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566

just as though it ignored the $1, or it failed to pick up the .* portion.

I double-checked everything in the rewrite dialog, and I have the link depth set to 1 with no restriction.

[PippoPippini]

Originally Posted by DTM

Interestingly enough, it's:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566

just as though it ignored the $1, or it failed to pick up the .* portion.

I double-checked everything in the rewrite dialog, and I have the link depth set to 1 with no restriction.

Hi DTM

It's very strange this behaviour.

I tried others rules, but it didn't works.

It looks like the number portion of the $1 parameter doesn't works.

Infact I tried this rule:
Pattern: http://www\.foxnews\.com/story/0,2933,.*,00.html
Rewrite rule: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,$1,00.html

When I downloaded the articles, I get this broken link URL:
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_frien...,3566,,00.html

Tried also removing either commas before and after the parameter, but no success.

I'll continue trying.

Regards

Gaetano

[DTM]

The plot thickens!

In an attempt to see if the issue is within Sunrise or if the Fox News links are just too odd to convert, I tried the following:

Filter:

.*

Rewrite as:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,242337,00.html

(Notice that the article number changed. The one we had been working with doesn't seem to be available any longer.)

This is obviously trivial, but should give you that story for every link on the page. They all fail. What you get is:
2337,00.htmlhttp://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,242337,00.html

And I think it's going to take Laurens to figure out how that happened!

[DTM]

How amazingly stupid of me!

It works just fine when I rid my filter expression of the syntax error! In each case, the .* in the filter should have been (.*).

Thanks to Jupiter and PippoPippini for your help, and sorry for leading you astray!