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Okay, looks like poor Phae's server has calmed down, I'll repost this. (It got eated before.)

My shift over to my new host went well, with one notable exception.

I've had readers mention that my feed links don't work.

Luckily, I have awesome readers, and there's been a lot of good advice for workarounds on it, I just don't know what's causing the problem.

See http://egotisticalpriest.com/?p=157 for more information.

The links are in the footer of the page - if you mouse over them, you can see the missing colon in the link.

That colon is THERE in the code. I've actually hard-coded it, to make 100% sure that it is there, and it was still missing from the mouseover. My OLD blog had the same mouseover issue (before the person holding the account dropped it, so it can't be tested at the moment)

Now, I've actually clicked on the link and followed it all the way through to adding it to my google feed reader, and had no problems. A lot of my readers did have a problem, though, so I can't just tra la la, pretend it didn't happen.

Has anyone else seen or heard of this issue? Why would the colon be stripped out of the feed link?

My bet would be that it's browser related - that colon was THERE in the code.

So...yes. Help?

Ego, I believe the feed: scheme isn't supposed to have two slashes after it which makes the links invalid. Also feed: isn't a standard so many browsers aren't going to natively support it. Currently both those links work in Firefox but they do not work in Internet Explorer.

To have it work in more browsers change the links and remove the feed: so they read



Using the following tags should do that.



But if you are trying to automatically launch someones feedreader you still may need the feed:. If you want to make that work, post up the code that generates it and we can take a look.

Thank you, Aos! That seems to have done the trick.

I'm not worried about automatically launching a feed reader - I just want them to be able to add it to a reader without issue.

I'll put a post up to see if the people having the issue still encounter it.

Very much appreciated!