543256 - URI to RSS feeds are incorrectly handled if Firefox uses a proxy server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 367432

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

Description

[amhoyle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

URIs to RSS feeds are mishandles if the user connects via a proxy server and attempts to access an RSS feed by clicking the orange RSS button in the Location bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Ensure your browser is configured to use a proxy server.
2.  Navigate to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8488751.stm
3.  Click the orange rss feed button in the Location bar.
4.  The URI is malformed.
Actual Results:  
feed://http//newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml

Expected Results:  
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml

There are two methods in the FeedConverter.js file which are supposed to handle the conversion of URIs in the form:
feed://http//newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml
and convert them to 
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml

However this method does not appear to function when the browser is instructed to connect to the internet via a proxy server.