[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3635: RSS feed and relative url gives warning

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#3635: RSS feed and relative url gives warning
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 Reporter:  snakefoot              |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect                 |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  normal                 |    Milestone:           
Component:  Administration         |      Version:  2.0.7    
 Severity:  normal                 |   Resolution:  wontfix  
 Keywords:  rss feed relative url  |  
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Changes (by foolswisdom):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix
  * milestone:  2.2 =>

Comment:

 Closing as WONTFIX, real  feed readers that can't handle this are broken.

 snakefoot and Otto42 thank you for participating! This is an interesting
 topic to me.

 I recall reading recently:

 "However, I will note in passing that this particular relative link is a
 full pathname that is only relative to the domain, so even if I did
 include this link in an RSS feed (which I haven’t), it shouldn’t present a
 problem for feed readers. There are only a finite number of reasonable
 choices for guessing the base URL of a relative link in an RSS feed — the
 feed URL, the entry URL, or the channel URL — and even though no RSS spec
 defines the right one, in this case they all share the same domain so they
 would all resolve to the same (correct) destination. If your feed reader
 isn’t choosing any of those, then it’s *really* broken, and I find it
 difficult to believe that my feed is the first place you’ve had a
 problem." [[br]]
 http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/30/truth-hurts#comment-8130

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