# Inbound gutter post-links are not relative urls

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/inbound-gutter-post-links-are-not-relative-urls/41170>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [17 Marzo, 2016 00:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inbound-gutter-post-links-are-not-relative-urls/41170 "2016-03-17T00:55:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ryantm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ryantm/32/134063_2.png) [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)\
**Post date:** [17 Marzo, 2016 00:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inbound-gutter-post-links-are-not-relative-urls/41170/1 "2016-03-17T00:55:04Z")

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inbound gutter post-links are not relative urls for example, in this post

> [@Auto-replace emoji like smiling\_face with Discourse codes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-replace-emoji-like-with-discourse-codes/26155):
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> Over on TDWTF, I’ve been using a bot to automatically replace Unicode emoji like slight_smile with Discourse emoji codes like smile; it’s useful when posting from mobile. @codinghorror suggests it could be made a Discourse feature; it never occurred to me before, but it does sound like it’d be useful. That way it could also work in PMs, which is something I haven’t got working in my bot yet.

there is a gutter post-links link like:

`<a class="track-link inbound" href="https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-in-topic-names/33852/4"><span>Emoji in topic names 😛💜🍦</span><span class="badge badge-notification clicks">3</span></a>`

I think it would be better if the link href were “/t/emoji-in-topic-names/33852/4”.

I think this is the same problem I reported in [Putting a discourse development server behind proxy seems to mess up some (but not most) URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-discourse-development-server-behind-proxy-seems-to-mess-up-some-but-not-most-urls/40829) but you cannot see the avatar problem on this site because this site uses a CDN for the avatars, and in that case, it makes sense to use an absolute URL instead of a relative one.

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