Why don't my Pages hyperlinks to web pages always work?

Question

I created a hyperlink in Pages to a web page by copy/pasting the long URL into the URL field of the inspector, but clicking on the link gives me a server error, i.e. "file not found." To test the link, I pasted the entire text of the Pages document into another word processor, clicked the same hyperlink, and it worked perfectly. I've tested various shorter hyperlinked URLs from various web sites in Pages and they work. Has anyone else experienced this? Could this have something to do with very long URLs? I'm using Pages '09 4.1.
Example, this URL does not work for me as a hyperlink in Pages, and my default browser is Safari 5.1.1:
http://www.davis-stirling.com/MainIndex/Statutes/CivilCode13659/tabid/900/Defaul t.aspx#axzz1fuNW0M8e
If I shorten the URL to http://www.davis-stirling.com the hyperlink from Pages works as it's supposed to.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Dasha1000 posted something on 12/11/08 1:23 AM so i blathered
about to and
fro:
> Here's the URL
>
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http://www.dtwlaw.com/
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<div align="left"><a href="about.html"
target="home.html"
onmouseover="window.status='Home'; return true;"
You set a target attribute, so when the link is clicked, it's
opened in the
target window.
Look at the target attribute in the Property Inspector when
the item is
selected.
--> target="home.html" means open the link in a browser
window named
home.html
By The Way-
THERE ARE NO WORDS ON THAT SITE.
No actual text. No a single word. Not a single frickin' word.
Quit reading
if fragile.
It's series of photoshop comps. Maybe pretty, might make a
nice story
board, but light blue image text on dark blue background is
not readable
even if a human is looking at the image. And that's what i
want to say- IT"S
ALL IMAGES. It's a photoshop comp. All images. No words.
No Content. There is Nothing There. It's invisible. Pretty
maybe but it
doesn't exist. It will not be indexed in any search engine
because all they
will see is this:
<!-- the page is all images with not a single word of
TEXT-->
Sorry to sound harsh---- pretty is nice but if it's got no
content it
doesn't exist. All that page has is a couple dozen images and
no words.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/