MacFixIt.com: RSS feed links redirected to home page
Posted by Pierre Igot in: MacintoshAugust 24th, 2004 • 2:58 am
I recently subscribed to MacFixIt.com’s RSS feed instead of visiting the web page. There’s something wrong with that feed, though. When I double-click on an article in NetNewsWire to read it in Safari, I get redirected to the site’s home page.
It looks like it’s a problem with the article URLs. To give an example, the URL for one recent article included in the RSS feed is:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php/20040823084353623
whereas the correct URL actually is:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040823084353623
It’s hard to believe that no one at MacFixIt.com has noticed this.
August 24th, 2004 at Aug 24, 04 | 3:46 am
I emailed them about the same issue (although I didn’t nail it down to the exact syntax, which is probably why) and never got a response. I hope you have more luck. A lot of sites producing feeds don’t seem to actually “drink the kool-aid” themselves.