Prefix added to links in articles

problem
#1

The feed at this URL

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

has a link to comments for the article. Viewing the feed in the browser (Firefox 21) shows the correct URL for the article comments. However newsblur is adding an extra https://news.ycombinator.com/// to the URL for these links which breaks the link. So a link should be

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

but comes through in newsblur as

https://news.ycombinator.com///news.y…

This wasn’t an issue until about 3 days ago.

Thanks!

Wesley

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#2

It’s the feed’s fault, unfortunately. They are specifying both a base attribute and then an encoded url that doesn’t look like a normal url. So they are getting clobbered.