# RSS issue: link must be a full and valid URL

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full-and-valid-url/28321
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 5, 2015, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full-and-valid-url/28321 "2015-05-05T07:40:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![polusok](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/polusok/32/106741_2.png) [@polusok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/polusok)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2015, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full-and-valid-url/28321/1 "2015-05-05T07:40:26Z")

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Please check it out

> **[Feed Validator Results: https://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss](https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org%2Flatest.rss)**

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This feed does not validate.
line 27, column 54: link must be a full and valid URL: /t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full/28321 (30 occurrences) [help]
          <link>/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full/28321</link>
                                                      ^
line 33, column 10: url must be a full and valid URL: /t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full/28321.rss (30 occurrences) [help]
          <source url="/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full/28321.rss">RSS issue ...
          ^

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full-and-valid-url/28321/2 "2015-05-05T10:13:02Z")

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Hmm this should pass perhaps add it to your list @techapj.

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full-and-valid-url/28321/3 "2015-05-11T05:21:37Z")

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Thanks for reporting it @polusok! Fixed via

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3447](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3447)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-issue-link-must-be-a-full-and-valid-url/28321/4 "2015-05-11T05:22:38Z")

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