[bbDev] RSS feeds

whistlerke whistlerke at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 13:37:04 GMT 2005


I have that too. Probably because I haven't a 'real' RSS reader installed, 
which understands the feed: protocol. It's like irc:// , if you don't have 
an irc client, firefox will give the same error.
Wordpress also has by default a feed: link at the bottom... :-/

2005/8/21, Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org>:
> 
> So, on the Favorites page (by the way, I just ran through my test site,
> http://bbpress.thomasleavitt.org/bbpress/ with Konqueror, Epiphany and
> Firefox with no problems), the link to the RSS feed starts with
> "feed:" ... this produces "Not a registered protocol" on one browser,
> and on another (Konqueror, I think) brings up a warning about an
> untrusted site which then results in an RSS aggregator being loaded.
> 
> Elsewhere, links to the RSS feed are not preceded by "feed:" tags, and
> instead I guess the browser interprets them as it desires (rendered XML
> or plain text).
> 
> I'm not an expert on RSS, so I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug.
> 
> Thomas
> 
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