Hi Joe,

It isn't broken, that guid is intended to change periodically. It is used when you are using FeedBurner for your feed so that users subscribe to your actual feed url not the feedburner url. That way you don't lose subscribers if you ever stop using feedburner or if google ever kills it like they did for Google Reader.

The guid prevents redirecting the feed to feedburner so that the user subscribes to the real feed url. When the app recycles the guid changes and subsequent requests with the old guid get redirected to feedburner since it is no longer the valid guid to prevent redirects.

Hope that helps,

Joe

No, that guid is not used by the /Blog/RSS.aspx page unless you have specified a feedburner url in settings of the blog.

If you specify a feedburner url and are using feedburner, then ultimately requests for the feed must be redirected to the feedburner feed url, but we don't want to redirect at the time the user subscribes because we want his feed reader to subscribe to the real url not the feedburner feed url, after he subscribes we do want to redirect requests from his feed reader to feedburner and this happens once the guid is expired/changed. So if feedburner is configured for the blog we check this guid and if it is the current one we don't redirect to feedburner.

If you don't have a feedburner url specified in the blog then that guid is ignored completely so it cannot affect anything or break anything.

If you are not using feedburner you can leave that param out of the url for whatever is consuming the feed. 

Hi Joe,

As far as I know copy link location should work, it should ignore that extra parameter if it doesn't need it. I will fix it so that it doesn't add the guid to the link url unless it is needed, I do see that it is adding it whether it needs it or not.

Best,

Joe