268871 - "Live bookmark feed failed to load" error on saved RSS feeds that have been validated by feedvalidator.org

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Mike of the Cincinnati Mikes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.40607)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Many RSS feeds (particularly, it seems, RSS 2.0) that are saved as live 
bookmarks display a "live bookmark feed failed to load" error, even though 
these feeds are validated through the http://www.feedvalidator.org/ website.  
From the casual observer of the raw XML, there seems to be nothing in common 
about these feeds other than their failure to pull up.  Is it possible the 
built-in Firefox RSS/Atom reader is not recognizing all the valid RSS 2.0 specs?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.abcnews.com/ or http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/
2. Click on RSS button in lower, right-hand corner, select feed to add as 
bookmark.
3. Go to "bookmarks" and select one of the saved feeds.  They will display the 
error "live bookmark feed failed to load"
4. Look at the properties of this feed.  Copy and paste the feed url and then 
go to http://www.feedvalidator.org/  Paste the feed URL and submit it for 
validation.  The feeds validate perfectly.

Actual Results:  
Was able to confirm that the feeds failed to load every single time.  These 
same feeds load perfectly using other RSS/Atom feed reader services, such as 
Bloglines, Yahoo, Amphetadesk, etc.

Expected Results:  
The software should have correctly parsed the RSS XML and produced headlines 
for these feeds.

Comment 1

[Mike of the Cincinnati Mikes]

Attachment: screenshot of abcnews RSS feed load failure (validated RSS feed)

Comment 2

[Mike of the Cincinnati Mikes]

Also can be duplicated on http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/

Comment 3

[Mike of the Cincinnati Mikes]

Also can be duplicated on http://www.espn.com/

Comment 4

[Ivan Ičin]

Works for me on espn.com (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news)

Can you reproduce this on 1.0?

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

all of these feeds WFM with Windows XPsp2 FF1.0 

Comment 6

[Mike of the Cincinnati Mikes]

Errors occurred using version Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox/1.0 works.

Comment 7

[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