[Bug] Feeds with Websub forcibly update the feed URL, breaking flaresolverr (not sure if this is a bug or FR) #7737
Description
Describe the bug
I have a few feeds that are behind Cloudflare, and for those, I use https://github.com/ravenscroftj/freshrss-flaresolverr-extension . In effect, it means that I set my feed URL to something like https://freshrss.mydomain.com/api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.theirsite.com/feed/ and I can now get the contents of the feed.
My problem is that one of those feeds also offers websub, and this forces the feed URL back to https://www.theirsite.com/feed/, thus undo my work. No further updates work until I change it back, at which point I get one.
It would be nice if I could disable this on a per-feed level (I know I can disable websub in general, but that'd be a shame, since I have a few hundred feeds in total, and only one is broken!)
I realize that this may be specific to the existence of the freshrss-flaresolver extension, but I assume it would happen with any proxy of the form https://foo/?url=https://original
To Reproduce
- Install the freshrss-flaresolver extension
- Add the feed for www.dansdeals.com/feed proxied via the extension
- Trigger or wait for an update
- See that the feed URL has gone back to www.dansdeals.com/feed
Logs and docker compose are below
Expected behavior
No response
FreshRSS version
1.26.3
System information
- Database version: mariadb 10
- PHP version: whatever is in the docker image
- Installation type: docker compose with latest docker image
- Web server type: whatever is in the docker image
- Device: Macbook
- OS: OS X
- Browser: Safari
Additional context
Full log snippet:
FreshRSS[14410]: FreshRSS Favicon GET https://freshrss.mikeage.net/api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
109.186.221.122 - - [16/Jul/2025:08:17:13 +0300] "GET /api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 233499 "-" "FreshRSS/1.26.3 (Linux; https://freshrss.org)"
109.186.221.122 - - [16/Jul/2025:08:17:16 +0300] "GET /api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 233499 "-" "FreshRSS/1.26.3 (Linux; https://freshrss.org)"
FreshRSS[14410]: FreshRSS Favicon GET https://freshrss.mikeage.net/
109.186.221.122 - - [16/Jul/2025:08:17:27 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "FreshRSS/1.26.3 (Linux; https://freshrss.org)"
FreshRSS[35]: FreshRSS SimplePie GET 200 https://freshrss.mikeage.net/api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
109.186.221.122 - - [16/Jul/2025:08:17:28 +0300] "GET /i/?rid=687735e79fe5c HTTP/1.1" 200 2482 "-" "FreshRSS/1.26.3 (Linux; https://freshrss.org)"
FreshRSS[14410]: FreshRSS Favicon GET https://freshrss.mikeage.net/favicon.ico
192.118.35.101 - - [16/Jul/2025:08:17:13 +0300] "GET /f.php?c5fbeded HTTP/1.1" 200 18102 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15"
FreshRSS[35]: [mikeage] [Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:17:28 +0300] [warning] --- JSON not found for WebSub: https://freshrss.mikeage.net/api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
FreshRSS[35]: [mikeage] [Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:17:28 +0300] [warning] --- Error while WebSub unsubscribing from https://freshrss.mikeage.net/api/cloudsolver.php?feed=https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
FreshRSS[35]: [mikeage] [Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:17:28 +0300] [warning] --- WebSub lease ends at 2024-09-12T17:22:03+03:00 and needs renewal: https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
FreshRSS[35]: [mikeage] [Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:17:28 +0300] [warning] --- WebSub lease ends at 2024-09-12T17:22:03+03:00 and needs renewal: https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
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FreshRSS[35]: [mikeage] [Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:17:28 +0300] [warning] --- Error while WebSub subscribing to https://www.dansdeals.com/feed/
Here is my docker-compose, but not my .env file:
---
services:
flaresolverr:
image: ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- LOG_LEVEL=info
ports:
- 8191:8191
freshrss:
image: freshrss/freshrss:latest
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- /opt/freshrss/data:/var/www/FreshRSS/data
- /opt/freshrss/extensions:/var/www/FreshRSS/extensions
environment:
TZ: Asia/Jerusalem
CRON_MIN: 23,53
SERVER_DNS: https://freshrss.mikeage.net
DB_HOST: mariadb
DB_BASE: ${DB_BASE}
DB_USER: ${DB_USER}
DB_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
ports:
- 8086:80
post_start:
- command: chmod g+w /var/www/FreshRSS/p/api
mariadb:
image: mariadb:10
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- MYSQL_DATABASE=${DB_BASE}
- MYSQL_USER=${DB_USER}
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=${DB_ROOT_PASSWORD}
volumes:
- /opt/freshrss/db:/var/lib/mysql