261206 - Live Bookmarks RSS feature doesn't recognize parent directory

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 262222

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ido Beeri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

As shown in the following attachment, I registered an RSS to my Bookmarks. The
location of the RSS entries is "articles/view.php". When I enter them it doesn't
recognize the parent directory which results in resolving host 'articles'.

It should use "http://www.[address here]/rss/articles/view.php" and not plain
"articles/view.php".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ido Beeri]

Attachment: Example

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Unfortunately, resolving relative URIs is completely undefined in all versions
of RSS. While you want them relative to your feed URI (example.com/rss/ +
articles/view.php), most naive producers will instead use them relative to their
channel/link (example.com/articles/view.php). The correct base according to RFC
2396 is the URI from which the feed was retrieved, which according to my test of
the dozen aggregators I have installed is used by exactly none: they all resolve
incorrectly, relative to channel/link, or don't resolve them at all (about 50:50).

However, we are clearly at fault in Atom: 0.3 mandates the use of xml:base
processing for feed/entry/link, and we don't do it.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

No wonder I couldn't find this: Live bookmarks are Firefox, not Browser.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262222 ***