261007 - ESPN RSS Feeds Fail To Load

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 253911

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Matt Cosentino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Firefox/0.10

I'm able to create a Live Bookmark from the ESPN site, but the feed fails to
load when I try to open it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to ESPN.com
2. Subscribe to RSS feed
3. Try to open Live Bookmark

Actual Results:  
"Live Bookmark feed failed to load."

Expected Results:  
Feed should load and items should be displayed as bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Open Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> File -> New Live Bookmark
Copy the feed url (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news) into the feed
location input and press ok.

->DUPE


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***

Comment 2

[Brian Polidoro]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Open Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> File -> New Live Bookmark
> Copy the feed url (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news) into the feed
> location input and press ok.
> 
> ->DUPE
> 
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***

I don't see how this is a duplicate of that bug.  That bug is for feeds that
don't have a <link> tag but do have an <a> tag to their feeds.  ESPN does have a
link tag which allows for subscribing using the status bar button.  Also adding
the feed manually as stated above still results in a livemark which is unable to
load.  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922
Firefox/0.10

Comment 3

[Matt Cosentino]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Open Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> File -> New Live Bookmark
> Copy the feed url (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news) into the feed
> location input and press ok.
> 
> ->DUPE
> 
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***

What?  Did you even read my description?  This has nothing to do with that.  I
was able to create the Live Bookmark, this is a parsing error.

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Also seeing this with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040923
Firefox/0.10

As a side note, it works with Thunderbird and the Sage extension

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Hard to tell without knowing the details of the format and Firefox's code both,
but this is actually a dup of bug 253911 (which has a patch, and should be fixed
soon).

Comment 6

[Matt Cosentino]

I don't see how this is a dup of 253911, that bug is for CDATA blocks in 0.91
feeds.  This is a 2.0 feed and there are no CDATA blocks.

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

View - Page Source. The titles are all in CDATA blocks, so we currently don't
see any titles, so we don't find any items. Since our parser is only looking for
item/title and item/link (or item/guid), there's really no difference between
0.91 and 2.0 to us: everything that isn't 1.0/RDF gets parsed the same.

Comment 8

[Matt Cosentino]

Oh ok, I was confused because it didn't show the CDATA blocks in the formatted
XML.  

Comment 9

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253911 ***

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change