diff --git a/packages/api/src/generated/graphql.ts b/packages/api/src/generated/graphql.ts
index 62ba7be07..f2fa24d95 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/generated/graphql.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/generated/graphql.ts
@@ -2790,6 +2790,7 @@ export enum SubscribeErrorCode {
   AlreadySubscribed = 'ALREADY_SUBSCRIBED',
   BadRequest = 'BAD_REQUEST',
   ExceededMaxSubscriptions = 'EXCEEDED_MAX_SUBSCRIPTIONS',
+  InvalidUrl = 'INVALID_URL',
   NotFound = 'NOT_FOUND',
   Unauthorized = 'UNAUTHORIZED'
 }
diff --git a/packages/api/src/generated/schema.graphql b/packages/api/src/generated/schema.graphql
index cbcdc1808..ac0db6c82 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/generated/schema.graphql
+++ b/packages/api/src/generated/schema.graphql
@@ -2190,6 +2190,7 @@ enum SubscribeErrorCode {
   ALREADY_SUBSCRIBED
   BAD_REQUEST
   EXCEEDED_MAX_SUBSCRIPTIONS
+  INVALID_URL
   NOT_FOUND
   UNAUTHORIZED
 }
diff --git a/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts b/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts
index 120dedc95..5ec3adc9f 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import axios from 'axios'
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom'
-import { Brackets } from 'typeorm'
+import { Brackets, In } from 'typeorm'
 import {
   DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_FOLDER,
   Subscription,
@@ -193,9 +193,18 @@ export const subscribeResolver = authorized<
       },
     })
 
+    // validate rss feed
+    const feed = await parseFeed(input.url)
+    if (!feed) {
+      return {
+        errorCodes: [SubscribeErrorCode.NotFound],
+      }
+    }
+    const feedUrl = feed.url
+
     // find existing subscription
     const existingSubscription = await getRepository(Subscription).findOneBy({
-      url: input.url,
+      url: In([feedUrl, input.url]), // check both user provided url and parsed url
       user: { id: uid },
       type: SubscriptionType.Rss,
     })
@@ -218,7 +227,7 @@ export const subscribeResolver = authorized<
       // create a cloud task to fetch rss feed item for resub subscription
       await enqueueRssFeedFetch({
         userIds: [uid],
-        url: input.url,
+        url: feedUrl,
         subscriptionIds: [updatedSubscription.id],
         scheduledDates: [new Date()], // fetch immediately
         fetchedDates: [updatedSubscription.lastFetchedAt || null],
@@ -232,16 +241,19 @@ export const subscribeResolver = authorized<
       }
     }
 
-    // create new rss subscription
-    const MAX_RSS_SUBSCRIPTIONS = env.subscription.feed.max
-    // validate rss feed
-    const feed = await parseFeed(input.url)
-    if (!feed) {
+    if (feedUrl !== input.url) {
+      log.info('feed url is different from user provided url', {
+        feedUrl,
+        inputUrl: input.url,
+      })
       return {
-        errorCodes: [SubscribeErrorCode.NotFound],
+        errorCodes: [SubscribeErrorCode.InvalidUrl],
       }
     }
 
+    // create new rss subscription
+    const MAX_RSS_SUBSCRIPTIONS = env.subscription.feed.max
+
     // limit number of rss subscriptions to max
     const results = (await getRepository(Subscription).query(
       `insert into omnivore.subscriptions (name, url, description, type, user_id, icon, is_private, fetch_content, folder) 
@@ -251,7 +263,7 @@ export const subscribeResolver = authorized<
           returning *;`,
       [
         feed.title,
-        feed.url,
+        feedUrl,
         feed.description,
         SubscriptionType.Rss,
         uid,
@@ -275,7 +287,7 @@ export const subscribeResolver = authorized<
     // create a cloud task to fetch rss feed item for the new subscription
     await enqueueRssFeedFetch({
       userIds: [uid],
-      url: feed.url,
+      url: feedUrl,
       subscriptionIds: [newSubscription.id],
       scheduledDates: [new Date()], // fetch immediately
       fetchedDates: [null],
diff --git a/packages/api/src/schema.ts b/packages/api/src/schema.ts
index 4df9a5b35..ac1fdd125 100755
--- a/packages/api/src/schema.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/schema.ts
@@ -1737,6 +1737,7 @@ const schema = gql`
     NOT_FOUND
     ALREADY_SUBSCRIBED
     EXCEEDED_MAX_SUBSCRIPTIONS
+    INVALID_URL
   }
 
   union AddPopularReadResult = AddPopularReadSuccess | AddPopularReadError