Hi,

I am using a script I found years ago on the internet to subscribe to rss-feeds via Firefox in Akregator:

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#!/bin/bash
if [-z`/bin/pidof akregator`]
then
#   echo "starting... " >> /tmp/akregator-rss-subscribe.log
   akregator
fi

for f in "${@/feed/http}"; do
#   echo "$f" >> /tmp/akregator-rss-subscribe.log
#       dcop akregator AkregatorIface addFeedsToGroup "[" "$f" "]" "Firefox Subscribe"
   qdbus org.kde.akregator /Akregator org.kde.akregator.part.addFeedsToGroup "$f" "Imported Feeds"
done

It works fine, but I noticed that it causes some problems if the page is encrypted with "https".
If I add the feed of "https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges"
it appears as "http: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?titl ... &feed=atom" in Akregator. Since It works fine, when I do this in Konqueror, I assume the problem is with the script. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Markum

Are you aware of what the argument being passed to the script is trying to do? It looks like it is trying to turn a feed:// url into a http:// url, which fails with https.

bcooksley wrote:Are you aware of what the argument being passed to the script is trying to do? It looks like it is trying to turn a feed:// url into a http:// url, which fails with https.

I do not exactly understand your question. I have not written the script myself and I do not really understand what it is doing exactly because I lack the knowledge.

The issue is both with the script and Firefox. Firefox behaves differently depending on if the URL is http or https.
Try the following script instead, and see if that works for both http and https urls.

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#!/bin/bash
if [-z`/bin/pidof akregator`]; then
   akregator
fi

for url in "$@"; do
   actualUrl=${f/feed/http}
   actualUrl=${actualUrl/http:https/https}
   qdbus org.kde.akregator /Akregator org.kde.akregator.part.addFeedsToGroup "$actualUrl" "Imported Feeds"
done

bcooksley wrote:The issue is both with the script and Firefox. Firefox behaves differently depending on if the URL is http or https.
Try the following script instead, and see if that works for both http and https urls.

Thanks. The behaviour has changed, but it is still not working correctly. Instead of

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https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom


it adds:

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https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php%3Ftitle=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom?title=Special:RecentChanges

which does not work.

I could not reproduce that issue specifically, but I did identify another bug.
Try this instead:

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#!/bin/bash
if [-z`/bin/pidof akregator`]; then
   akregator
fi

for url in "$@"; do
   actualUrl=${url/feed/http}
   actualUrl=${actualUrl/http:https/https}
   qdbus org.kde.akregator /Akregator org.kde.akregator.part.addFeedsToGroup "$actualUrl" "Imported Feeds"
done

Now it works. Great! Thanks!