FeedWordPress and HTTP Error 400

So I’ve been toying with the idea of setting up WordPress to syndicate content from other sites I contribute to. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in the FeedWordPress plugin that prevents you from using feed URLs containing ampersands. Doing so results in an error like this:

Diagnostic information
 
HTTP request failure
 
400: Bad Request
 
HTTP Transports available:
 
    1. WP_Http_Fsockopen

Apparently, I’m not the only one who has encountered this issue, but I did discover a workaround. Just change all the ampersands in your feed URL to the HTML entity equivalent. Example:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/whatever/uploads?orderby=published&safeSearch=none

Becomes…

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/whatever/uploads?orderby=published&safeSearch=none