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4 points by reagle ↗ HN
In the RSS/XML <https://news.ycombinator.com/rss> the forward slashes in URLs is being escaped, breaking the links in my reader.

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rfnslyr
Which reader do you use? Is HN open source?
reagle
I use RawDog, but it's HN that is sending links that look like this:

<link>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stockman.house.gov&#x2F;media-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;stockman-requests-subpoena-of-nsa-s-white-house-irs-phone-logs</link>

kogir
So, the changes are my fault, but the escapes are valid XML[1][2]. I'd recommend using a better reader. Both Google Reader and Mozilla Thunderbird work fine for me.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#dt-escape

[2] http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew...

reagle
I like rawdog -- been using it for 10 years, creates a Web page that I can read on any device. But it's no longer active. Granted, the encoding seems valid, but why? Any harm in changing it back?