Requestpolicy 1.0b3 prevent RSS icon subscription

[msxfm]

Issue by xunxun1982
Saturday Apr 13, 2013 at 15:50 GMT
Originally opened as RequestPolicy/requestpolicy#372

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I use Fx20.0.1 and Requestpolicy 1.0b3

I installed the extension : RSS Icon in url bar
https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/rss-icon-in-url-bar/?src=api
to show RSS icon in Fx url bar.

Enter a RSS url, and a RSS icon shows,
when I click the icon to subscibe, no effect happened.

After disable Requestpolicy, RSS icon subscription will work.

[msxfm]

Comment by TheRealFaziri
Thursday Mar 13, 2014 at 12:45 GMT

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Double-clicking the icon makes it work (just as double-clicking magnet links works and such).

This really needs to be fixed, it took me a year to find that double-clicking works and that RP causes it.

[msxfm]

Comment by madderbomber
Thursday Apr 03, 2014 at 01:43 GMT

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This problem does not just affect the "RSS Icon in URL Bar" extension. It affects the brower's native RSS button as well, and it persists in Firefox 28.0.
I thought it might be that RequestPolicy is blocking requests to/from about:feeds. I've tried adding rules that could allow requests to/from about:feeds to troubleshoot it, but since RP automatically adds :// after the scheme, about:feeds can't be added that way, and simply adding about:feeds as the host does not fix the problem.
Double-clicking the button only works on websites that only have one feed, making the button itself clickable. On places like flickr that offer a choice of RSS or Atom feeds through the drop-down menu, double-clicking is impossible. The button is not made to be double-clicked. Therefore, disabling blocking with RP is the only workaround.

[myrdd]

@xunxun1982 @TheRealFaziri @madderbomber version 1.0.beta8 contains a workaround against this bug, so I close this issue. For details take a look at issue #447, it aims to solve this problem cleanly.