From 495293b3f5d497404702a231cd3c62835e00cee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:56:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index 97229c7561..01366d466a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
         except Exception:
             self.log.error('Failed to parse url: %r, ignoring' % url)
             return frozenset()
-        return frozenset([(parts.netloc, parts.path)])
+        return frozenset([(parts.netloc, (parts.path or '').rstrip('/'))])
 
     def index_to_soup(self, url_or_raw, raw=False, as_tree=False):
         '''