Re: feed: URI assumed by Safari

Subject: Re: feed: URI assumed by Safari

From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:15:02 -0800

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On 27 Jan '06, at 10:48 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

Anyway, something seems to be going wrong inside our Syndication code; when we receive the request we can't identify the document as RSS or Atom.

Got it! We have some preflight code in Syndication that looks at the contents of a URL and tries to determine whether it's an RSS feed, an Atom feed, or an HTML document that links to a feed. When we're told to display a URL we run it through this, so we can do the appropriate redirection if we hit something that's really a web page.

Unfortunately, this code is separate from our main parser, and it looks like in the case of this feed it's making an overly restrictive test. Specifically, it's checking that the first child of the <rss> element is a <channel> element; but in this feed there is a <viewinbrowser:info> element before the <rss>.

I'm not sure why the code is doing that; you're correct that the feed is valid, since inserting properly namespaced non-RSS elements is legal. We'll need to fix our code to not be overly restrictive. Sorry! In the meantime, you can work around the problem by removing that <viewinbrowser:info> element or moving it after the <channel> element.

I filed the bug in our database as 4424687.

Are you associated with webjay.org? Or have you notified them of this?

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