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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:05PM (#36949526)
A number of BBC podcasts set their rss url to http:// instead of https://. One can still get these feeds over https/443 (see below). But podcast apps will try to use http/80 of course.

Why does BBC do this. Or maybe it's the podcast apps that do it. Weird.

"In Our Time" is one example.

   printf 'GET /b006qykl.rss HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' \
   |nc -vvn 125.252.212.113 80 > 1.rss

   printf 'GET /b006qykl.rss HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' \
   |openssl s_client -connect 125.252.212.113:443 -ign_eof > 1.rss
Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by fomine3 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:46AM (#36953096)
Technically it only supports http in spec https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29985571/w3c-validator-s...
Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:46AM (#36954170)
TIL. In experiments I have run, most feeds use https.