[consulting] Absolute Paths in Content for Better Rss Compatibiliy

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Brian

You don't have to wait for this to get in core, given the rigor that core
must have.

Make it a contrib module. This will solve the issue for most people.

See this project, which massages the RSS in the other way (removes markup)
http://drupal.org/project/cleanfeeds



On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:

> I know this is approaching it from the other end, but I had a patch ready
> for Aggregator which converted all relative paths in images and links to
> absolute paths:
>
> http://drupal.org/node/395764
>
> It stalled at a certain point, and I haven't really gone back to finish it
> off (coding style fixes and a few unit tests needed). However, the logic is
> simple enough that feed readers could easily implement similar methods. Or,
> for that matter, Drupal could while outputting feeds.
>
> Brian
>
>
> Shai Gluskin wrote:
>
>> I've been using RSS a lot more lately, encouraging my clients to, and
>> making my sites more RSS friendly.
>>
>> I've only recently realized that inline relative URLs break in a lot,
>> if not most, feed readers. Do you encourage content editors to use
>> absolute urls because of this? Do you use absolute urls in your own
>> blogs?
>>
>> Shai
>> p.s. I've been using magecache combined with CCK's functionallity for
>> setting a separate display choice for RSS to size images smaller for
>> RSS feeds, presuming a lot of the RSS audience is on a mobile device.
>> Way awesome.
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