511506 - When attempting to add an https RSS feed to Outlook from Firefox, I receive a malformed URL.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[emily]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10

The URL it tries to add is http://https://myurl.com.

It seems to be pre-pending http even though I already have https:// specified.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit an https rss feed with Firefox
2.Select Outlook as the feed reader to add it to and click Add
Actual Results:  
You will get a warning asking if you're sure you want to add the url, and the url it shows includes http://https:// at the beginning.  When attempting to add to google or yahoo feed readers, the URL does not seem to be affected in this way.

Expected Results:  
You'd expect the URL it tries to add would just have https:// at the beginning.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Is that Outlook for Mac, the one that isn't shipping until the end of next year, or Entourage, or Outlook and Firefox on Windows, or Outlook for Windows in a VM on OS X, or what?

Do you see the same thing happening from other browsers? What we send is the correct-according-to-"spec" feed://example.org for http, and feed:https://example.org for https, but particularly if you mean a prerelease Outlook for Mac, it wouldn't be terribly surprising if the person writing feed: URL support for it hadn't ever seen the https form, or if they pass it through some URL handling library that doesn't cope well with that according-to-"spec" but invalid according to RFC URL format.

Comment 2

[Brad Wallace]

Hi Phil,

Please allow me to chime in as I have been working with Emily @ Atlassian on this issue.  This error occurs in the following environment:

Windows XP Pro SP3
Firefox 3.0.12
Outlook 2007 SP2 MSO

Using the above, try accessing the following URL from Firefox and then select Outlook as the reader.  You should experience the issue with the malformed URL.

https://blog.id.iit.edu/wpmu/newidiom/comments/feed/

Other readers such as Brief are able to display the URL so it is entirely possible the issue is with Outlook 2007 and not Firefox.  Are there any tests you can do to confirm this on your end?  Thanks for your help.

Best regards,
Brad

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

On my end? No, you already missed my end twice, with either Windows or Outlook ;)

On your end? Start menu, Run, paste in (making sure it's all one line, it'll get wrapped quite a bit in this comment)

"c:\program files\microsoft office\office12\outlook.exe"
feed:https://blog.id.iit.edu/wpmu/newidiom/comments/feed/

(fixing the path to Outlook if that's not where you have it). If that (which is what Firefox should be sending to Outlook) does the same thing, then it's an Outlook bug.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Oh, and the other question I should have asked, that should have been asked in http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-17367 (which started out with the http://https:// URLs in the screenshots, before it wandered afield into cacheability, and never really mentioned the actual steps for subscription): when you manually tell Outlook to subscribe to https://blog.id.iit.edu/wpmu/newidiom/comments/feed/ through the UI, rather than passing the URL from Firefox or on the commandline, does it work, or does it do the same thing?

Comment 5

[Brad Wallace]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the details on how Firefox is calling into Outlook.  I ran the command you provided and the http:/https:// persists!  Indeed, the bug is with Microsoft.  I went to the Microsoft Connect website in an effort to report the bug, but the site is pretty much a joke and I couldn't find Outlook anywhere in the list of connections.

FYI, adding the feed through the Outlook 2007 UI does work.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Brad