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User RSS Link Broken

#99

The RSS feed link for my user rss feed goes to http://mlkshk.com/None

Here is what the xml looks like:

<title>Brett O'Connor</title>
<link>http://mlkshk.com/None</link>
<description> New Shake </description>
<language>en-us</language>
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:23:38 </lastBuildDate>

Reported by Brett O'Connor · May 12th, 2011 @ 02:28 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: Andre Torrez Andre Torrez

Activity

  1. Andre Torrez
    Andre Torrez

    Hi. What link is this? We don't have links on the site.

    May 19th, 2011 @ 04:38 PM

  2. Brett O'Connor
    Brett O'Connor

    Sorry. Should have been more descriptive. This is not a link in the site. This is the channel element "link" in the feed as per RSS specifications.

    The spec says the link element should be "The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the channel." (http://feed2.w3.org/docs/rss2.html) So it should probably be http://mlkshk.com/user/negatendo for my feed at http://mlkshk.com/user/negatendo/rss but currently it's http://mlkshk.com/None (an "uh-oh" page).

    It's mostly a technicality, but with some readers such as Google Reader, you can follow the "link" channel element from an rss feed to see which site it's derived from using the link circled in red in the screenshot. I think the expectation is clicking that link takes you to the source of the feed.

    May 20th, 2011 @ 05:46 AM

  3. Brett O'Connor
    Brett O'Connor

    Dang lighthouse, y u no like my screenshots? Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116387/Capture.PNG

    May 20th, 2011 @ 05:47 AM

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