diff --git a/wp-includes/feed.php b/wp-includes/feed.php
index 31486d8fe8..dd1c39d6cb 100644
--- a/wp-includes/feed.php
+++ b/wp-includes/feed.php
@@ -498,10 +498,12 @@ function prep_atom_text_construct($data) {
  * @since 2.5
  */
 function self_link() {
-	echo 'http'
+	echo clean_url( 
+		'http'
 		. ( (isset($_SERVER['https']) && $_SERVER['https'] == 'on') ? 's' : '' ) . '://'
 		. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
-		. wp_specialchars(stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), 1);
+		. stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
+		);
 }
 
 ?>