Title: RSS problem… Firefox or WordPress?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RSS problem… Firefox or WordPress?

 *  [spiderworm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spiderworm/)
 * (@spiderworm)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-firefox-or-wordpress/)
 * 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](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](http://family.tellim.com/feed).
   In my HTML, the link to the feed is here:
 * <link href=”[http://family.tellim.com/feed/&#8221](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-firefox-or-wordpress/#post-770662)
 * 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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 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-firefox-or-wordpress/#post-770662)
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