626225 - Cannot read news feed with slash (/) in title

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[WD]

Thunderbird allows subscribing to a news feed with a '/' in the title, but when attempting to read an article, it complains about not being able to find the folder.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Subscribe to: https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commits/fixes/0.24.atom
2) Read an entry in that feed

Actual results:
Error message

Expected results:
Able to read the messages fine

Additional info:
Manually create the folder name that doesn't have a '/' in it and then when you subscribe to the feed, choose that folder.  This allows you to read the feed fine.   The problem is that Thunderbird chooses a folder name based on the Title, apparently not considering unsafe characters.

Comment 1

[Mayur]

I observed this for other folders too. I was trying to subscribe to a folder with title as "India/US" and it never showed even after a refresh. So I changed it to India US and it worked great. So I think the backslashes and forward slashes should be allowed.

Comment 2

[alta88]

this works for me in windows, can someone confirm this is mac only in current releases?

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to alta88 from comment #2)
> this works for me in windows, can someone confirm this is mac only in
> current releases?

It does work for me.