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Joel Sumner Author

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RSS feed reading broken

Safari allows browsing RSS feeds with the URL of the style
"feed://"

It looks like Safari would redirect that to some application on www.mac.com. Now that mac.com has been turned off, URLS with "feed://" just get a generic me.com "Looking for me.com?" page.

I have OS 3.1.2. Was this fixed in 3.1.3?

To reproduce, go to the New York Times site, go to the bottom "rss" link. That takes you to the list of their feeds. Select a feed. You will see it redirect to mac.com and then to the generic me.com page.

Where can I file a bug report on this?

iPhone 2G, iPhone OS 3.1.2

Posted on Feb 9, 2010 7:37 PM

33 replies

Feb 10, 2010 7:39 AM in response to pete.shelly

What the ****? Nobody asked Apple to redirect all RSS feeds through Mac.com in the first place. If they don't fix their implementation, then RSS feeds just flat out don't work in Safari at all.

Feb 10, 2010 8:08 AM in response to Joel Sumner

Unfortunately I can confirm this issue, and would be very disappointed if Apple just pulled the plug without notice or warning. It's there choice if they no longer want to support RSS feeds in the native browser, can imagine why since I sync a lot of RSS feeds from Safari on my mac, and now have tons of bad bookmarks.

Feb 10, 2010 8:13 AM in response to Cory Bauer

Nobody asked Apple to redirect all RSS feeds through Mac.com in the first place.

Safari on the iPhone doesn't have the ability to read RSS feeds, so Apple re-directs them to a Web App located on the www.mac.com server that they created so that you can view them.

There are plenty of really good RSS readers on the AppStore, much better than the Web App Apple offered, or you can use Google Reader in Safari.

Feb 10, 2010 8:18 AM in response to Julian Wright

I'm in the same boat as Interstink, the post above yours. I have lots of RSS feeds bookmarked in Safari at home and now they're all broken on my iPhone. If I were to use a 3rd party RSS reader, I still lose the ability to sync with Safari on my Mac.

Feb 10, 2010 8:37 AM in response to Julian Wright

Of course, and if you go to http://mac.com/ there's a reminder that www.mac.com will no longer redirect to www.me.com from January 21st, which is odd as that's exactly what seems to be happening.
So is this a mistake or a result of the final changeover for mobileme?
Seems a bit careless to me. Bookmark syncing is indeed very useful.
Why can't we just contact someone who just KNOWS?
Has anyone tried Steve yet?

Feb 10, 2010 8:47 AM in response to John Alder

Why can't we just contact someone who just KNOWS?

Maybe because no-one here actually knows who to contact to get this information. As this is a end user-to-user forum few people here are likely to have inside contacts at Apple, and even less the exact people/department who would know.

Feb 10, 2010 8:53 AM in response to Julian Wright

I know Julian, sorry it was just a kind of anguished cry.

Feb 10, 2010 9:20 AM in response to John Alder

I called the "Apple Experts" today and they didn't even know how to use RSS feeds in Safari on the iphone.

Feb 10, 2010 9:25 AM in response to pete.shelly

Good grief!
Ever fallen in love with a phone you shouldn't have fallen in love with.

Feb 10, 2010 9:58 AM in response to Joel Sumner

Seems to be fixed as of minutes ago. 11:50am CST

Feb 10, 2010 10:12 AM in response to Joel Sumner

Update: I have Travis from Apple Support talking to product management about the issue. Plus, my son has a first generation iPhone and running 3.1 (7C144) and his RSS Feeds Still work. I am on hold and will report what I learn.

Feb 10, 2010 10:24 AM in response to Joel Sumner

Thanks for posting that Interstink.
All of my RSS links are working now.
I guess we'll never know what happened.
Wonder which genius said it was no longer supported.

Feb 10, 2010 3:45 PM in response to Joel Sumner

Mine are working again too. Very relieving.

Feb 10, 2010 3:56 PM in response to Joel Sumner

i guess we can all breathe a sigh of relief now

CDCDC

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Feb 10, 2010 10:04 PM in response to Joel Sumner

It's Back!

RSS feed reading broken