RSS link without leading http:// don't work

[Adrenalin_]

How to reproduce ?

Add a new rss feed with url: www.mininova.org/rss.xml

But with http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml work fine

www.mininova.org:80/rss.xml also don't work

Also, no errors.. Or failures, it say "Downloading freeds..", and after, "Next update in..", for a simple user it look like the rss file has been downloaded, but rss are empty, huh.

[Firon]

The same thing happens if you don't put HTTP in the tracker URL. This is more of a request than a bug (since you should be putting in the HTTP after all)

[Adrenalin_]

Firon, how about to write about this "feature" ?

I personally never write http:// in the front when i enter some url, and when i first time tryed to enter a rss address in uTorrent, i get no results, because i don't put http://.. And also i have not get any errors or warrings. I think this is not normal.

http stand for hyper text transfer protocol that mean port 80. In the case when i don't put http, but :80, it also should work !? www.mininova.org:80/rss.xml

[Firon]

HTTP does not mean port 80. I've got a webserver on port 8000, AIM uses HTTP on port 5190 and 4443, trackers are on a ton of different ports (and they use HTTP), etc.

HTTP is a protocol, it doesn't really have a port, though port 80 is the "most used." Lack of http:// doesn't tell you what protocol it is.

This is still a request.

[Adrenalin_]

Firon, check http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers,

http 80/tcp World Wide Web HTTP

THE "WELL KNOW" PORT FOR HTTP IS 80 ! WRITE IN ANY BROWSER HTTP://WHATEVERwithoutEXPRESSportSPECIFICATION, AND YOU'LL SEE IT WILL CONNECT TO THE PORT 80 !

Is uTorrent using for RSS feeds download somethink else than HTTP protocol ? If it even use, isn't 99% of RSS feeds served using HTTP protocol ?

And shouldn't uTorrent give me any errors message/warrings about the thing what i have not put "http://" in front, but don't act like the rss feed are empty ?

Firon, and if i remember correct, on your #2 post, "This is more of a request", was "This is more of a feature", have you edit the message without leave a notice ?

Hey, and that was just a bug report, this is a habit stuff(automatically put http in front) what all normal browsers/downloaders/rss readers/[put any normal app what use mainly http, here] are doing these days.

Or at least, put smth. like, "please specify the protocol in front of url, or it will not work".

Ok, i see you have move my topic to "Feature Requests", ok, i hope this new "feature" will be added soon..

Thanks for attention ;p