Custom feed creates invalid RSS

Resolved gsoundsgood
(@gsoundsgood)

9 years, 3 months ago

Everything used to work just fine for a couple of years, but then – perhaps with the latest plugin update – the custom feed started creating only invalid RSS. Looking at the source code, it does look as an RSS, but no app (e.g. feedburner) seems to be able to read it and it does not validate. There seems to be an issue with the link line, but everything used to work fine until recently with the same kind of links, so I’d assume there’s something else going on.

anything I can do about it?

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Eric Gunawan
(@erricgunawan)

9 years, 3 months ago

Hi @gsoundsgood,

It seems that your issue here is similar to what is reported on https://core.trac.ww.wp.xz.cn/ticket/39157

There’s a fix mentioned on that ticket that should solve this issue. It would be great if you could test that patch on your site. See https://make.ww.wp.xz.cn/core/handbook/tutorials/working-with-patches/#applying-a-patch for some instructions on how to test a patch.

Thread Starter gsoundsgood
(@gsoundsgood)

9 years, 3 months ago

Hi @erricgunawan, thanks for your reply.

Actually, looking at the description, it does not seem to be the same issue. In my case, the feed is actually generated: see link. There is no 404 error as described in that issue.
If I look at the source of the feed, it looks very much like a normal feed. But the generated feed is invalid, validators don’t accept it, and standard software/platforms don’t read it.

If after having looked at the feed, you still believe that my case is related to that issue, I’ll try to apply that patch.

thank you for your support!

Eric Gunawan
(@erricgunawan)

9 years, 3 months ago

Hi @gsoundgood,

To be honest, we can’t really see your feed (http://giorgiocomai.eu/wprss) in the browser at the first place. Here’s what we got when we try to check it:

It’s probably blocked from where I try to access that URL.

But we can see that the feed does indeed not validate from here:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiorgiocomai.eu%2Fwprss

Also, when we try to validate other feed that is coming from your site (we assume you have a default feed on this URL: http://giorgiocomai.eu/feed/), it also doesn’t validate:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiorgiocomai.eu%2Ffeed

Hence, we were thinking if you have a similar feed problem as is reported here: https://core.trac.ww.wp.xz.cn/ticket/39157

You can also try to contact your hosting provider or site administrator regarding this. Since both your default and custom feeds do not validate, there might be some server setup (missing libraries or such) that cause this issue. We won’t know for sure about this.

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