[Project_owners] feed:// URLs?

[Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla]

Eric H. Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are feed:// URLs supposed to be handled internally by firefox and not result in a new HTTP request
> when followed? If so, how are feed URLs generated (I don't see websites using them AFAIK).
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric

No, because feed: is nothing, not a registered protocol/scheme, and it 
is also dead wrong (that is also why nobody is working on the draft 
proposal since 2003) because things like:

feed://https://some.thing.com/feed.rss

is not transparent to end users/something people are expecting ;)

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Michael Vincent van Rantwijk
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