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RSS Feeds Keep Breaking
My RSS feed keeps breaking - several times over the past few days I've had listeners complain that this feed: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss338... is failing. I ran it through the w3 feed validator and there is a lot of nonsense at the top of the XML file that keeps it from validating, starting at line 0.
I could be wrong but the following doesn't belong in the feed:
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:24:22 GMT
ETag: "681169a-85d2e-4e0eb180"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 548142
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml
I could be wrong but the following doesn't belong in the feed:
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:24:22 GMT
ETag: "681169a-85d2e-4e0eb180"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 548142
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml
I’m frustrated.
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Inappropriate?It appears that you fixed the problem. I just tested your feed at www.feedvalidator.org and got this result:
Congratulations! This is a valid RSS feed.
Are you creating your episode descriptions in a word processor (MS Word, etc.) and then cutting and pasting them into the TalkShoe "episode notes" field? If so, that could be the source of the problem. That can introduce invalid characters which break the feed.
I recommend creating (writing) the description directly in the TalkShoe "episode notes" field or using a very basic program like Notepad (on Windows PCs, click "All Programs" then "Accessories") from which to cut and paste text.
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Inappropriate?Dave -
Let me clarify - the feed is being spontaneously broken and fixed at random intervals. I am not making any changes to the feed (and, yes, all my descriptions are written in TextEdit which is a pure ascii editor), but it looks like something on your end is periodically adding junk to the top of the feed as noted in my first post.
A valid XML document should start with a line like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
But for whatever reason occasionally talkshoe kicks out a feed that has a header like this:
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:24:22 GMT
ETag: "681169a-85d2e-4e0eb180"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 548142
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml
I'm not sure what the cause, but it's not on my end and it's happening two to three times a week for the past couple of weeks now. Sometimes it will be broken for a few minutes, sometimes for a few hours.
Hopefully this clarification will help in the actual investigation of the problem.
Sam
I’m angry.
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Inappropriate?Sam,
OK, that's very helpful detail. I'll have engineering investigate.
Dave
