Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader.

[devocalypse]

devocalypse last edited by

I need to debug an RSS feed by looking at it's final generated source. Impossible thanks to opera's newsfeed handler hijacking it. A flag to disable built-in news handling or a simple view source button on the news preview page would save from the need to open another browser.

Found this flag: chrome://flags/?search=news#news-feeds-page-action

Unfortunately it doesn't stop feed urls from being handled by the news reader.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

You can't go to the feed url in a tab and right-click on the page and choose "view source"? Even for pages that might get a preview, view source still works it seems.

[devocalypse]

devocalypse last edited by

When you navigate to a feed xml it opens personal news. No view source or anything as it's part of the browser ui and not a page.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Okay. My Opera (developer channel) isn't behaving like that (as in, not automatically opening personal news), but I'll reset my profile and check things out.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I see now. I've only added them manually before and didn't know Opera had detection that would load Personal News. I was trying the first two below and they didn't load personal news. But, I found one (the last one) that does.

Content-Type: application/xml
https://www.hardocp.com/RSS/all_hardocp.xml

Content-Type: text/xml
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index

Content-Type: text/html
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

So, I can indeed confirm that this is a problem. I also can confirm that the option to disable the feed action doesn't work, which I would assume is a bug if that's what the option is truly for.

As a workaround for now, you can paste feed links into https://validator.w3.org/feed/. That'll show the source (below the validation results).

[devocalypse]

devocalypse last edited by

Interesting workaround and thanks for going out of your way to confirm this.
My alternative solution so far is to paste it into Edge as it formats and color-codes the xml.
Let's hope the devs fix the detection flags in the future.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Nope, they won't. :awww:
This problem has not been resolved since 2016

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Block the URLs with ADBlock or any other¿?
Could be possible¿?

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