I can't set .rss file type to Open in Firefox
Jimmy03 opened this issue · 4 comments
Is this addon dependent on being able to set .rss files to "Open in Firefox" under the Applications section in Firefox Options? Now it won't let me set it to "Open in Firefox", instead it just saves the .rss file as a download.
Some rss feeds are actually in the format of website/feed.rss and Firefox treats it as a file, and not a viewable feed
Firefox>Options>General>Applications
.rss files
Edit: A workaround seems to be to set .rss to "Always Ask" in the Firefox Applications setting, and then when prompted by Firefox what to do with it, select Open with Firefox. The problem with this is that you have to do it every time, and it also will download the .rss file to Username\AppData\local\Temp which I don't really want, as it's potentially insecure. I guess in order for Firefox to open the .rss file it needs to download it locally, and then the Addon shows the feed preview.
Do you have an example of a feed with this behavior? This extension uses the content type header to decide what to display, so if a feed isn't being rendered by the extension when you expect it to, it may be a problem in how the server is returning the content.
Do you have an example of a feed with this behavior? This extension uses the content type header to decide what to display, so if a feed isn't being rendered by the extension when you expect it to, it may be a problem in how the server is returning the content.
@jonafato
This one does it: https://www.veritasradio.com/vs.rss
Firefox prompts me what to do with the .rss file instead of the extension showing the feed
However this other one does work and the extension shows the feed preview: https://audioboom.com/channels/5023732.rss
Hi,
The file extension doesn't matter, as @jonafato said the extension looks at the content-type header to see if it's an rss feed.
Your first example sends application/x-rss+xml which is meaningless, the correct content type for rss feeds is application/rss+xml. (the second example is correct so it works)
(and adding exceptions for each invalid feed would be a pain so it's up to the site to fix its feed)
@aureliendavid
I think I see what you are saying,
Somehow Podbay is able to read and render that feed correctly on their site:
https://podbay.fm/p/veritas-w-mel-fabregas-or-non-member-feed-or-subscribe-at-veritasradiocom-to-listen-to-all-parts
Not sure what methods they used to get it to work