RSS problem… Firefox or WordPress?

  • spiderworm

    (@spiderworm)


    17 years, 12 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m new to the world of blogging, and to RSS as well. I just set up a blog for my family at http://family.tellim.com , and the RSS icon appears in the address bar as it should when using Firefox 2.0. However, clicking the RSS icon takes me to feed://http//family.tellim.com/feed/ , an invalid URL. feed://family.tellim.com/feed works though, as does http://family.tellim.com/feed. In my HTML, the link to the feed is here:

    <link href=”http://family.tellim.com/feed/&#8221; title=”Millet Family News RSS Feed” type=”application/rss+xml” rel=”alternate”/>

    Originally I thought that must be incorrect, that http:// isn’t a valid protocol for a feed. I did some digging all the way down to the get_feed_link function in link-template.php, thinking that if I modified it to strip out the http:// from what it returns, all would be well.

    But then it occurred to me that perhaps http is a valid protocol, and the bug was with Firefox adding the feed:// protocol when http:// is perfectly valid.

    Can anyone speak to whether http:// is a valid feed protocol? Should Firefox be adding feed:// to the URL? Is this a WordPress bug or a Firefox bug?

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 12 months ago

    http:// is just fine.

    The feed:// thing seems break more than it helps. It was meant to be “registered” for feed readers and other RSS clients.

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