>I actually believe specifying any protocol breaks it, so it is best to
>leave it off (like the edit I made in my quote here.)

This is true; the way DCForum handles link embedding is pretty crocky, and if you put on the protocol tag, it parses that as the server you want. I don't know if it's actually "older than Google", but it's true that SSL was far less commonplace in those days (and tended not to be used on the kind of site that people on web forums were going to be trying to link to very much, I should suspect).

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