diff --git a/lib/pubsubhubbub.rb b/lib/pubsubhubbub.rb
index b24b7f798..6de442a8e 100644
--- a/lib/pubsubhubbub.rb
+++ b/lib/pubsubhubbub.rb
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ class Pubsubhubbub
   end
 
   def publish(feed)
-    response = RestClient.post(@hub, :headers => @headers, 'hub.url' => feed, 'hub.mode' => 'publish')
-    response
+    begin
+      response = RestClient.post(@hub, :headers => @headers, 'hub.url' => feed, 'hub.mode' => 'publish')
+    return response
+    rescue  RestClient::BadRequest=> e
+      Rails.logger.warn "Public URL for your users are incorrect.  this is ok if you are in development and localhost is your pod_url#{e.inspect}" 
+    end
   end
 end