As I understand the purpose of feedburner (or alternatives such as adding some lines to .htaccess) is to redirect requests for my site's feeds to my feedburner feed. So far all clear and fine.
The problem: I want to offer the users on my site my feed. But as soon they click on the link they are redirected the feedburner feed. This means: Users subscribe to the feedburner feed instead my feed.
Example:
My feed www.example.com/myfeed is redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/myexamplefeed.
Can this be avoided? Is it possible to open a "redirected" URL so that it does no redirect?
The only way I found out to avoid this is by offering users direct links to readers, such as for example http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http://www.examp...
But what if the user wants to choose another reader?

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Well by nature, the redirect that happens is with a 307 HTTP status code, which informs any software/rss reader that it is only a temporary redirection, and that the software/rss reader should still check the original site feed url for future requests. If you delete the feed in your FeedBurner account they will also give you the option to forward traffic from the now-deleted FeedBurner feed to whichever location you specify, which should help round up any straggling subscribers.

I'm not sure what you mean by letting users choose another reader. The FeedBurner feed that is shown is still just an RSS feed - it is still up to the user to decide what kind of software or rss reader they will use to subscribe to the feed.

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Status: Closed (fixed) » Closed (works as designed)

...meant to put the status as 'by design'

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beauregard commented

hi

thanks for the reply.

If you delete the feed in your FeedBurner account they will also give you the option to forward traffic from the now-deleted FeedBurner feed to whichever location you specify, which should help round up any straggling subscribers.

that's good to know.

With choosing reader I meant this: I offer on my site for example 5 reader-links. If the user presses on this icon, then the reader is opened and my original url passed. In this case the users have my original link.
But users wishing another reader have the feedburner link.

But with the option above you describe, the problem of "losing" subscribers will not happen.

andre