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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Relative urls in a redirect
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I'm not sure I like the way that the new sblog is set up. In particular, have a look at the feed. That's a link that immediately issues a 302 to a relative url. I'm not sure that's a great idea; nevertheless, the fact that it wasn't working in BottomFeeder was a bug which I just fixed (in the dev stream). The problem was - I wasn't expecting relative urls in the redirect (which is a bug). That's fixed; you should be able to deal with SBlog feeds now (or any other feed that issues a 302 and redirects to a relative url)
I have another issue with the SBlog feeds though - there are no link items - either for the feed itself, or for the items. Now, I understand the whole idealogical position of "HREF Considered Harmful". That's all fine and good, but it clashes with the expected usage of the web and of blogs. Those feed elements really, really need links....
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