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The thread discusses an issue experienced by the original poster, Mike, who encounters a problematic link related to Tankless Water Heaters that redirects to a suspicious URL involving Lowes, likely indicating a potential malware or phishing attempt. A responder comments that URLs should typically be under 2083 characters, noting that Mike's URL exceeds this length, which might explain the problem. The overall tone suggests concern about the suspicious link, with some technical insight on URL length limitations.

MikeHawthorne

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Hi

I clicked on a link on my comcast home page about Tankless Water Heaters, but it wouldn't open, I've had that quite a bit lately.

Ok I took the Http off the front and now it shows...
This seems kind of excessive, like I said it wouldn't open on my computer but it is to someplace at Lowes.

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Neemobeer

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Generally speaking URLs should be under 2083 characters. That one is 2476. It could be just be encoded though.
 

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