511294 - RSS feed URL misinterpretation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 408599

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

My RSS subscription link is not being picked up correctly in Firefox, in either Windows or Mac.  If I mouse over the Content subscription link (top right) and copy the link, this is what I get:

Safari (Mac & Windows), Chrome (Windows), IE 8 (Windows):

feed:http://www.equixotic.com/feed/

Firefox: (Mac and Windows):

feed://http//www.equixotic.com/feed/

Note the added // before http and the dropped colon in Firefox.  I don't know why this is.  It was reported by one of my blog readers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click RSS Content link
2. Copy link
3. Paste
Actual Results:  
feed://http//www.equixotic.com/feed/

Expected Results:  
feed:http://www.equixotic.com/feed/

Comment 1

[Joel J. Adamson]

I get the following behavior in Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko) on Ubuntu
Jaunty Jackalope.

Using this shell script, I get the url passed to my feed-handler (a
different shell script):

edna: /home/joel zsh > cat ~/bin/fdck.sh 
#!/bin/sh

# Script to check Firefox (IceCat) output of commands to add rss feeds

printf "%s\n" "$@" >> ~/tmp/fdck.out

exit 0

edna: /home/joel zsh > cat ~/tmp/fdck.out 
feed://craphound.com/?feed=rss2
edna: /home/joel zsh > 

Not even an "http"

I get the same behavior with GNU IceCat 3.5.2 on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope and Slackware 13.0

Comment 2

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Moving this bug to the RSS component.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Comment 1 is the correct behavior: according to the "spec" for feed URIs, both feed://craphound.com?feed=rss2 and feed:http://craphound.com?feed=rss2 are valid and equivalent feed URIs.

The "spec" failed to realize that feed:http://craphound.com?feed=rss2 is actually an invalid URI, because a spec cannot include a colon, but I think that bug 408599 will deal with the statusbar and copy-paste issue of comment 0.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

And indeed it did.