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Hi, it's not so much a feature request than a bug report (sorry if it's not the right place). Since a few days ago the comments link in the RSS feed is wrong, i

by yaantc 13y ago

Hi, it's not so much a feature request than a bug report (sorry if it's not the right place). Since a few days ago the comments link in the RSS feed is wrong, it contains extra spaces. Example: https:/%20%20%20%20/%20%20%20%20news.ycombinator.com/%20%20%20%20item?id=5859307 As a result clicking in a link in a RSS reader will fail to open the page in a web browser. The story link is fine thought. This is while using the feed: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss I can't pin down the exact date when it started, less than a week ago for sure, possibly this WE?

yaantc 13y ago
Sorry for the spam, it seems client specific (RSSOwl). I tried another client and it was fine, then looked at the RSS flux and it also looks fine. I've been fooled by the fact that I only had the issue with HN but none of my many other feeds. My best guess is that you're using the HTML entity "/" instead of the straight character "/" for URLs. Somehow RSSOwl handles this fine in <link> elements, but not in <comments>. I'll submit the issue to RSSOwl.