1167850 - allow subscription to a feed contained in a file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254231

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[John K.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150513174244




Expected results:

For various reasons it might be necessary to subscribe to a feed that is contained in a local file. Currently, this the only way to achieve this seems to be to set up a local web server. It would be useful if it is possible to specify the feed URI as file:///.

Comment 1

[alta88]

it sure would.  this is bug 254231, which died due to security theater and world class discourtesy of even bothering with a response.

however, it is possible.  in the Error console, enter:
top.opener.FeedUtils._validSchemes = ["http", "https", "file"];

you can then drag a file from a file explorer to a feed account folder/subfolder in Tb. make sure to select a subfolder first so its db is open.

for permanence on restart and for the Subscribe dialog, use userChromeJS and add this:
if ("FeedUtils" in window) {
  FeedUtils._validSchemes = ["http", "https", "file"];
}