[Bug] url=steam:// isn't resolved anymore

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[Bug] url=steam:// isn't resolved anymore

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Hi,

see my signature - url=steam:// isn't resolved anymore as a link.

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Re: [Bug] url=steam:// isn't resolved anymore

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steam://friends/add/'.76561198315557255.'
For those if you out of the know, this link is a custom address that will call your Steam Client Bootstrapper* from your web browser to preform a specific action. In this case, it's telling your Steam application to direct itself towards adding steinio's Steam profile as your friend. There are other examples of this type of link. Here's one:

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steam://rungameid/427520
Opening this link in your web browser will tell the Bootstrapper to launch Factorio from Steam. (provided you have purchased and installed Factorio from Steam onto your computer.)

I see two possible reasons.
1: it's because phpBB figured out that this could be a major security vulnerability, since anything that supports links like this can be activated from an innocent looking url enclosure.
2: it's just a bug.



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Steamsignature.com signatures broken

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Look at my signature and it shouldn't look like this. The right button should have a link to add me.
Could this be fixed?

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Re: [Bug] url=steam:// isn't resolved anymore

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[Koub] Merged into older topic describing the issue
Koub - Please consider English is not my native language.

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