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by reagle • 13 years ago

4 7 13 years ago

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In the RSS/XML <https://news.ycombinator.com/rss> the forward slashes in URLs is being escaped, breaking the links in my reader.

rfnslyr• 13 years ago

Which reader do you use? Is HN open source?

reagle3• 13 years ago

I use RawDog, but it's HN that is sending links that look like this:

johannmg• 13 years ago

Twitter bot hasn't updated in about 2 days. Sadness.

gringofyx• 13 years ago

I made a new one at https://twitter.com/HackerNewsYCBot

kogir• 13 years ago

So, the changes are my fault, but the escapes are valid XML[1][2]. I'd recommend using a better reader. Both Google Reader and Mozilla Thunderbird work fine for me.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#dt-escape

[2] http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew...

reagle3• 13 years ago

I like rawdog -- been using it for 10 years, creates a Web page that I can read on any device. But it's no longer active. Granted, the encoding seems valid, but why? Any harm in changing it back?

reagle3• 13 years ago

Rawdog's author has filed a bug [1] against feedparser.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=407

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