/feed urls such as node/1/feed

By nadavoid on 10 Nov 2008 at 23:47 UTC

I have a clean install of Drupal 6, and added pathauto. When configuring it, I get this option for nodes:

Internal feed alias text (leave blank to disable):

After accepting that and adding a node, I get an alias to this system path:

node/1/feed

When I go to node/1/feed, I see the exact same thing as what I see at node/1, which is the themed display of a node. (I also see the same things when I go to the aliases that pathauto created for those two system paths.)

My Question:
Is node/1/feed automatically supposed to do something? Or is there something else I need to do, to make it do something?

If it's supposed to be an RSS feed, I guess I'd expect to see an actual RSS feed when going to that URL. I'm not sure what the RSS feed would be of - maybe just the one node, or of all comments on that node.

This isn't really a question about pathautho, but about default feed paths, and trying to get a better understanding of these paths.

Comments

That is normal

behindthepage commented 11 November 2008 at 01:07

What you are describing is an effect caused by how Drupal processes urls. When Drupal process an url eg "node/1/feed/bill" it looks for that path, then if that doesn't exist it looks for "node/1/feed" then if that doesn't exist it looks for "node/1" and if that doesn't exist it gives a 404 error. So in your case because node/1/feed doesn't exist you are seeing node/1.

If you enter "node/1/bill" you will see "node/1"

Try it on a fresh install.

gpdinoz
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

Regards
Geoff

That helps, but...

nadavoid commented 11 November 2008 at 02:33

Thanks. That helps, but I still would like to know: Is there a default behavior in Drupal for handling the specific path: /node/*/feed? If I want an actual RSS feed from that path, do I need to install a module or adjust a setting?