Whenever I put a url in this new instance, for article extraction the Url is altered from “http” to “Sec” see the example below:
Before
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
After
sec://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Output
The output is pure gibberish, can anyone tell me why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?
@BocciaMan It is absolutely normal, that FTR is changing https: to sec: that is no problem.
But your feed aggregates articles from different sources, with different html formats. Some of these sites are catched very well, while other sites/hosts may need a config file.
So, if you get rubbish you should post the article link, not only the feed link.
The issue is resolved.
Glad it’s resolved. To explain why we change ‘https://’ to ‘sec://’, it was done a long time ago when users hosted Full-Text RSS on different types of shared hosting. Some of those hosting providers automatically flagged any URL that contained another URL - identified by the scheme ‘http’ or ‘https’ - as suspect. So when we generate URLs we use ‘sec’ and then internally treat it as ‘https’.
But as @HolgerAusB says, that should not affect the result you see.