RSS Widget – Yahoo feed

Would appreciate some help with this.

I have set up a Yahoo RSS feed in the RSS sidebar widget. It displays the news headlines properly, but the links are bad.

The URL for the feed is:

http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=%5Bticker_symbols%5D

The link that is generated for each item has the following structure:

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080404/%5Bstory_page%5D

Of course, the correct address begins with the second http.

So my questions are:

1. Why does the Yahoo feed generate these links? Is there a different feed that generates correct links?

2. I’m an inept coder, but I assume I can modify the rss.php file to strip the extraneous info from the URL. Anyone care to suggest the appropriate code?

By the way, I’ve put up a feed from a different source and it works fine, so this seems to be a Yahoo peculiarity.

Thanks in advance for your help!