1488057 - linux.com RSS feed not accepted

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Thomas Ludwig]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
Build ID: 20100101

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to add

https://www.linux.com/rss/feeds.php

as a RSS feed to Thunderbird


Actual results:

I got a hint that the address is not a valid feed. 

However, the "Feed Validation Service" says it is a valid RSS feed.


Expected results:

This address has been accepted by other RSS readers like QuiteRSS. I expected it to be accepted by Thunderbird as well.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

https://www.linux.com/rss/feeds.php does test as valid.

In my case I got no feedback whatsoever, and nothing in Error Console - most odd

Comment 2

[alta88]

From the error console:
2018-09-03 13:11:59	Feeds	ERROR	FeedParser.parseAsRSS2: missing mandatory element <title> and <description>, or <link>

And the guide is explicit about this rejection, regardless of the validator. The RSS2.0 spec is clear; inform the publisher to make the simple change required to be spec compliant.

Comment 3

[Thomas Ludwig]

I see. However, from a vanilla user's perspective TB's behaviour seems to be a bit finicky as RSS readers like QuiteRSS or Liferea accept that feed without any problem. So I'm afraid for most people it's simply a bad user experience if something doesn't work in TB which works flawlessly in other applications.