263150 - Live bookmarks doesn't works with RSSify URLs

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Nico]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Try to make a live bookmark with this URL:
http://www.jelot.net/rss/rssify.php?url=http://mestierediscrivere.splinder.com

A failure is reported.

Try to open the URL in the browser.

A failure is reported.

Try to use the URL in FeedReader.

Works.

Bye. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Standard Live Bookmarks creation with the example URL 

http://www.jelot.net/rss/rssify.php?url=http://mestierediscrivere.splinder.com
Actual Results:  
Failure reported

Expected Results:  
Build a live rss feed view

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I'm getting 

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location:
http://www.jelot.net/rss/rssify.php?url=http://mestierediscrivere.splinder.com
Line Number 18, Column 168:

when I open this page

It doesn't validate either (W3C)
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jelot.net%2Frss%2Frssify.php%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fmestierediscrivere.splinder.com

INVA ?

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> INVA ?

Not necessarily. The feedvalidator is failing to pass it (mostly) because it
takes the use of a DOCTYPE as an invitation to use a validating parser, not just
to read external entities. Assuming that the reason we fail to parse it for
livemarks is because of the same problem that viewing it in the browser shows,
that's bug 69799 or bug 204102 depending - we'll read external entities for
ourselves, in chrome, but not for content. There are ways around that, though I
don't know whether they are available to us or not.

Give me a little while to testcase it, make sure that's the only reason we
aren't handling it, and then Vlad or mconnor or someone can decide what-or-whether.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

setting ->NEW
there's little point leaving this UNCO if we can reproduce it.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: RSS feed declaring external entities

Simple test case with a single externally defined entity.

Comment 5

[Bob Gabert]

On the MSNBC RSS news feeds page http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5216556/ clicking on
the XML links brings up a dialog asking to open the RSS feed in MozillaXML.
(Mozilla 1.7.3 can't handle it and displays instead, "This XML file does not
appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is
shown below.")

Comment 6

[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

Comment 7

[Virgo Pärna]

My guess is, that internally it's the same bug, that stops http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/index.rss from being used also in Thunderbirds feed reader and in Sage (Firefox addon).

Comment 8

[buovjaga]

(In reply to Phil Ringnalda (:philor) from comment #4)
> Created attachment 161376 [details]
> RSS feed declaring external entities
> 
> Simple test case with a single externally defined entity.

This now works in FF 50 (tested on Arch Linux). Closing as WFM. Feel free to set to NEW, if I am somehow in error.

Comment 9

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It works only and exactly if you see the Live Bookmark with a single item, with the title "¡Ay Carumba!"

Comment 10

[buovjaga]

(In reply to Phil Ringnalda (:philor) from comment #9)
> It works only and exactly if you see the Live Bookmark with a single item,
> with the title "¡Ay Carumba!"

It shows "Carumba!" without the ¡Ay. Below it is the text "entities in RSS". Is this OK?
Tested on FF50 Win 7 now.

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

No. That sounds like you are looking at the feed preview rather than adding it as a Live Bookmark, since Live Bookmarks don't show the feed description, which is what "entities in RSS" is. If you actually add it as a Live Bookmark, then you'll see "Live Bookmark feed failed to load" just like you would have in 2004.

Comment 12

[buovjaga]

Ok, it would be clearest to include a screenshot of how it should look like.

Comment 13

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.