267918 - can't process Secunia Virus Alerts RSS feed

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Krzysztof Ciep³ucha]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

When I try to add Secunia Virus Alerts RSS feed
(http://secunia.com/rss_latest_virus_alerts/) RSS client starts verifying the
feed and doesn't process any further than that. Other Secunia's feed - Secunia
Advisories (http://secunia.com/information_partner/anonymous/) is processed
properly. In previous version of Thunderbird (0.8) both feeds stalls in
verifying stage. What's interesting, Forumzilla 0.5.2 extension process both
feeds properly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. on RSS account settings select manage subscriptions
2. click Add and enter the url: http://secunia.com/rss_latest_virus_alerts/ then
click OK


Actual Results:  
client enters endless Verifying the feed stage


Expected Results:  
after SHORT verifying stage client should accept the feed.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Confirming with today's branch build. 

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

This feed is now working for me using the 11/27 0.9 build.

It was probably fixed by my changes to Bug #259777

Kris, can you download the latest 0.9 nightly and try again?

259777

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I was able to add and verify the feed at
http://secunia.com/rss_latest_virus_alerts/ using 2004112705-0.9 on linux fc2.