This bug also causes probs in FeedBurner which (correctly) uses the GUID element as a link.
The RSS spec confirms the info you have from Thunderbird help. See http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt --- ** [tickets:#6687] Odd guid on RSS feeds** **Status:** open **Created:** Fri Sep 20, 2013 02:34 PM UTC by Chris Tsai **Last Updated:** Sun Feb 16, 2014 02:11 PM UTC **Owner:** nobody [allura:tickets:#5423] On our RSS feeds, we have weird GUID values. eg. from https://sourceforge.net/p/mailredirect/news/feed we have: ~~~~ <guid>https://sourceforge.netb6756a9295b4d4377fa50aa0064472d39d940369</guid> ~~~~ According to http://www.w3schools.com/rss/rss_tag_guid.asp this doesn't seem to be strictly *wrong*, but it is a bit odd. And some RSS readers (like Thunderbird) reportedly use that instead of the `<link>` element when they try to link to the page. UPDATE: User contacted Thunderbird help, and they indicated that according to spec, the "isPermaLink" attribute, which we haven't set, defaults to True. Hence it's actually *not* wrong to assume the `<guid>` is a link. So, we need to either set "isPermaLink" to false, or change the guids (which could cause a one-time annoyance of the RSS items showing up again as "new" if/when the guid changes) --- Sent from sourceforge.net because [email protected] is subscribed to https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/admin/tickets/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.
