# unwanted substitution occurs in new feed URL

**URL:** <https://forum.newsblur.com/t/unwanted-substitution-occurs-in-new-feed-url/341>\
**Category:** problem\
**Created:** [January 1, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/unwanted-substitution-occurs-in-new-feed-url/341 "2012-01-01T01:18:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![roy.christmann](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@roy.christmann](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/roy.christmann)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/unwanted-substitution-occurs-in-new-feed-url/341/1 "2012-01-01T01:18:00Z")

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I try to enter the following URL as a new feed:

[http://houston.craigslist.org/search/…](http://houston.craigslist.org/search/cto?query=ford%20ranger&srchType=T&format=rss)

But Newsblur changes it to this:

[http://houston.craigslist.org/search/…](http://houston.craigslist.org/search/cto?query=ford%7B'NEWSBLUR_DIR'): ‘/home/sclay/newsblur’}anger&srchType=T&format=rss

Is there an escape character to prevent this substitution from happening?

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**Author:** ![roy.christmann](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@roy.christmann](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/roy.christmann)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/unwanted-substitution-occurs-in-new-feed-url/341/2 "2012-01-01T01:21:00Z")

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Lets try those URLS again

the good one:

http: // [houston.craigslist.org](http://houston.craigslist.org) /search/ cto ? query=  
ford%20ranger& srchType=T& format=rss

the bad resulting one generated by newsblur:

[http://houston.craigslist.org/search/cto](http://houston.craigslist.org/search/cto)? query=  
ford{‘NEWSBLUR\_DIR’: ‘/home/ sclay/ newsblur’}anger& srchType=T&format=rss

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**Author:** ![samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/samuelclay/32/857_2.png) [@samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/samuelclay)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/unwanted-substitution-occurs-in-new-feed-url/341/3 "2012-01-02T22:15:00Z")

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Wow, thanks for finding this! I just pushed a fix, so it should now be able to be added just fine. Sorry about that, it was some debugging code accidentally left in.