Re: [squid-users] Feed protocol in squid

chrisw23 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got a Firefox 3.5 client accessing the Internet, with its proxy
> settings explicitily set to a server running Squid 3.1.
>
> When I try to add an RSS feed via Firefox 3.5 by clicking the RSS feed icon
> in the awesome bar, Firefox tries to access the following URL:
>
> GET
> feed://http//news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=squid+invalid+url&output=rss
> - NONE/- text/html
>
> Squid returns an invalid URL error.
>
> Does this mean Squid doesn't support RSS feeds? Or is Firefox being stupid?
> Is there anything I can do to get the downloading of RSS feeds working
> again? I don't want to give the clients direct access to the Internet.

I don't think the feed:// part is supposed to be public.

The RSS feed is just an http:// URL for an object of specific RSS MiME type.

Amos

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