#27965 Broken link in project rss feed

[eMTee]

Hello,
the link that'd take you to the actual PR at the web UI, is broken for PR related items in the projects' rss feed. Mind the <guid> tag of this example taken from our project's current feed.xml :</guid>

<item><title>Merge request: TLS Certificate Verification Bypass with ALLOW_UNTRUSTED</title><link>https://sourceforge.net/p/dcplusplus/code/merge-requests/4/?limit=25#90ac<description><div class="markdown_content"><p>Has this been reported to AirDC++? <br/>
If so can you link me to it?</p></div></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">eMTee</dc:creator><pubdate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:07:49 -0000</pubdate><guid>https://sourceforge.netba2b76089988ef84530b15c4a86323cdd878f5ad</guid></item>

[SourceForge Support]

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out.

The <guid> is not a functioning link, that is true.  But the <link>https://sourceforge.net/p/dcplusplus/code/merge-requests/4/?limit=25#8050</link>element is correct and is what feed readers should be using</guid>

Sincerely,

SourceForge Support

[eMTee]

"A frequently asked question about <guid>s is how do they compare to <link>s. Aren't they the same thing? Yes, in some content systems, and no in others. In some systems, <link> is a permalink to a weblog item. However, in other systems, each <item> is a synopsis of a longer article, <link> points to the article, and <guid> is the permalink to the weblog entry. In all cases, it's recommended that you provide the guid, and if possible make it a permalink. This enables aggregators to not repeat items, even if there have been editing changes."
https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</guid></item></guid>

Some aggregators (feed readers), like Thunderbird's apparently use the link in the guid tag to display the item content. See attachment.

[SourceForge Support]

Hi,

Could you please try the Atom feed (https://sourceforge.net/p/dcplusplus/code/feed.atom) in Thunderbird and let us know the results?

Based on what you find, I'll pass the GUID information and your test results along to our engineering team for further evaluation.

Sincerely,

SourceForge Support

[eMTee]

I can confirm that it works well using the Atom feed.

[eMTee]

Some help for your engineers

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt :
"If the guid element has an attribute named isPermaLink with a value of true, the reader may assume that it is a permalink to the item, that is, a url that can be opened in a Web browser, that points to the full item described by the item element. An example:

<guid ispermalink="true">http://inessential.com/2002/09/01.php#a2</guid>

isPermaLink is optional, its default value is true. "

Unsuprisingly it's even confused the TB devs back then : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264482