260837 - RSS feeds using SSL are erroneously reported as invalid

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Chris Adams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) OmniWeb/v558.48
Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20040913)

Thunderbird reports the feed as invalid; accessing the exact same content through HTTP instead of 
HTTPS works: http://improbable.org/chris/rss.php

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to subscribe to https://improbable.qwknetllc.com/chris/rss.php
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird will report that it is not a valid RSS feed

Expected Results:  
Load it just like Firefox handles the same HTTPS URL.

Comment 1

[Dan Cech]

This is caused by the issue raised in bug 254231

Comment 2

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I confirm this bug on release 0.9 on Windows. You can try with rss feed from 
mozilla:

https://update.mozilla.org/rss/?application=firefox&type=E&list=newest

Error reported: ... is invalid rss feed.
If I rename https into http it works! so it seamns that it doesnt support HTTPS.

Please modify the OS into ALL.

Comment 3

[Adam Becevello]

Updating Hardware -> All and OS -> All based on previous comment.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

confirming on mac 20041117-0.9.

nominating --could this get fixed for 1.0?

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix...allow http and https urls for feed urls

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

fixed branch and trunk

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed with 200411190x-0.9 on the three main platforms.