Hi I have noticed that the RSS feed (for recent changes) has upset Thunderbird. It says this is not a valid RSS feed. The most recent one that it accepted is :
Could someone try it with another RSS reader ?
Message-Id: http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=Camden;version=7@localhost.localdomain
From: <The Open Guide to London> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Camden Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Base: http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=Camden;version=7
Andrew Black wrote:
Hi I have noticed that the RSS feed (for recent changes) has upset Thunderbird. It says this is not a valid RSS feed. The most recent one that it accepted is :
I have done a bit more probing on this one, and learnt a bit more about RSS in the process :-)
- Version 13 http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=Metropolitan_Line&version=13 ..... 2005-07-10 23:16:21 by KaiMichaelPoppe http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?username=KaiMichaelPoppe&action=userstats *[& => And]* [delete http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=Metropolitan_Line;version=13;action=delete] THis has an & in the subject line which appears in the RDF file. I think it has to become &
- there are & in the URLs. Might these need to be escaped (I don't know enough to judge)
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Flondon.openguides.org%2F... gives you a few more warnings about the format which may or may not be significant
Andrew
- there are & in the URLs. Might these need to be escaped (I don't
know enough to judge)
This one here seems to be the main problem. I notice that the last one to work has a ";" rather than a "&". ..... id=Camden;version=7 But it keeps Thunderbird happy if you encode the & as & (took a copy to my webseriver and edited it).
username=KaiMichaelPoppe&action=userstats> *[& => And]*
This one (which has expired) will also be a problem I guess.
openguides-london@lists.openguides.org
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Andrew Black