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Add the "?redirect=no" option to the README.txt, for testing and Google Webmaster Tools compatibility

Posted by EvanDonovan on May 28, 2009 at 11:07pm
Project:FeedBurner
Version:6.x-1.x-dev
Component:Documentation
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active

Issue Summary

It would make it easier for site admins to debug issues with their FeedBurner feeds if you could easily compare the way the feeds look on FeedBurner to the way they look on your Drupal site.

I think the best way to accomplish this would be to create a "bypass feed redirection" permission, so that people with that permission wouldn't be redirected to FeedBurner.

Currently, I'm using the Advanced Setting for user agent-based direct access, so everyone browsing in Firefox can get to the real feed. This is OK, since I use FeedBurner for iTunes, but it's obviously not an ideal solution.

I might write a patch for this if I get the time.

By the way, have you considered renaming the "MyBrand custom domain" setting, since it is now being used by everyone who has had their feeds migrated over to Google? This makes the setting name & description a bit misleading.

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Comments

#1

Posted by Dave Reid on May 28, 2009 at 11:13pm

There is actually a built-in redirection skip if you add ?redirect=no to the URL of the feed. (Or &redirect=no if you use clean URLs).

#2

Posted by EvanDonovan on May 28, 2009 at 11:18pm

Oh, OK. I had forgotten about this feature. Is it documented? I think this should probably be sufficient then. Feel free to mark as won't fix, postponed, etc. at your discretion :)

#3

Posted by devkinetic on January 29, 2010 at 3:19pm
Status:active» closed (won't fix)

#4

Posted by EvanDonovan on March 25, 2010 at 7:18pm
Title:Create a "Bypass Feed Redirection" Permission» Add the "?redirect=no" option to the README.txt
Component:Code» Documentation
Status:closed (won't fix)» active

Changing to a documentation request. I couldn't find this anywhere, would be nice to have in the README.txt.

#5

Posted by rootwork on August 7, 2011 at 9:46pm
Title:Add the "?redirect=no" option to the README.txt» Add the "?redirect=no" option to the README.txt, for testing and Google Webmaster Tools compatibility

Agreed, this would be great to have in README.txt.

Another use case: When you submit the feed to Google Webmaster Tools, it won't accept a redirected feed. You have to point it to the non-redirected feed. See https://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97090 for more.

Updating the title so it will show up when people search for a solution for this like I did.