265246 - Can not import Atom feed from Gunota Headlines (url in desc), causes subscription management to hang

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Daniel Beckham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10

Thunderbird will not import the following Atom feed from Gunota Headlines:
http://aeug.blogspot.com/atom.xml.  Thunderbird's (recent branch build: 0.8,
20041010) subscription management dialog "gets stuck" while trying to verify and
import the feed.

I've verified that the feed can be read by other newsreaders.  Specifically,
NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) imports the feed correctly.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply attempt to import http://aeug.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Actual Results:  
The subscription management dialog just continuously displays "Verifying" in the
progress meter and never begins to download the headlines.  Clicking the OK
button in the dialog raises a dialog asking if you wish to cancel the process.

If you do cancel, a folder is left there, empty and somtimes highlighted bold as
if it thought there were new headlines available.


If there is anything more specific about my setup or process that anyone needs
to fix this, please let me know.

Comment 1

[Daniel Beckham]

Attachment: testcase for this bug

I've taken the current version of the atom feed in question and narrowed the
problem down to a single article that's causing the import to fail.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

Do you still get this error with Tb 1.0? It WFM

Comment 3

[Daniel Beckham]

This is now working for me.

Comment 4

[Doug Wright]

per comment 3