261737 - apple.com - thunderbird don't like this feed http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

thunderbird shows me the progress of verifying the feed, but that's all..

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.subscribe to http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

This website is using text/plain as MIME-type, not application/rss+xml as it's
supposed to. See also bug 255637.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

More likely to have been a temporary problem with the feed (which WFM two days
later): because application/rss+xml is both unregistered and unregisterable, no
RSS reader written has ever required it, apparently including Thunderbird, which
is now reading it fine.

Your best first step with a feed parsing problem is to run it through
http://feedvalidator.org/ - it will complain about bad MIME-types, but will also
tell you about genuine parsing problems which are more likely to matter.

Comment 4

[Michael Barrientos]

Duplicate of bug 259777?

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

WFM based on comment 3. Definitely not a TE bug.