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tinyurls not working
Hey Twitterfeed, I'm having a problem!
I'm trying to set up an RSS of earthquake activity from the USGS. But the tinyurls being created are not working. could you take a look?
http://twitter.com/EarthquakeNews
I'm trying to set up an RSS of earthquake activity from the USGS. But the tinyurls being created are not working. could you take a look?
http://twitter.com/EarthquakeNews
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Inappropriate?I think I can see the problem - it's related to the fact that the links in each of your posts are relative rather than absolute.
For example: <link href="/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/nn00241939.php" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
Now, strictly speaking the twitterfeed parser should handle this (I'm using a modified versions of the Perl FeedPP module), because of the link nodes in the feed itself, but unfortunately that's not the case right now.
The only thing that will make the tinyurl links work at this time would be to turn the individual links into absolute links. e.g. something like..
<link href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/nn00241939.php" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
A little further down the line I'm hoping to fix this issue in the feed parser, but can't really promise any dates..
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this answers the question
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Inappropriate?Thanks Mario, I thought that was it. Guess I'll send a request to the USGS to see if they can't use absolute urls. I'm sure they'll be receptive to my query.
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