269067 - RSS feed verification (validation) process never ends for a valid feed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Ibragim F. Youldachev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Dear Sirs,

The following RSS feed is valid:

http://www.RentACoder.com/RentACoder/misc/LinkToUs/RssFeed_newBidRequests.asp

You can take a look at the following validators to ensure:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.RentACoder.com%2FRentACoder%2Fmisc%2FLinkToUs%2FRssFeed_newBidRequests.asp
http://rss.scripting.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.RentACoder.com%2FRentACoder%2Fmisc%2FLinkToUs%2FRssFeed_newBidRequests.asp

Mozilla Tunderbird 0.9 (20041103) RSS feed validaitying process is never ends.

Java script console shows the folowwing errors (some (1) and one (2) ):

(1)

Error: feed has no properties
Source File: chrome://messenger-newsblog/content/Feed.js
Line: 112

(2)

Error: [Exception... "'error after downloading
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/LinkToUs/RssFeed_newBidRequests.asp:
couldn't retrieve feed from request' when calling method:
[nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001e
(NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "<unknown>" data: no]


Any comments?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create News & Blog account (from menu Files/New/Account/RSS News & Blogs, for
example)
2. Select News & Blog account and press context menu item "Manage Subscription"
3. Click "Add" button.
4. Input the following URL into "Feed URL" textbox:

http://www.RentACoder.com/RentACoder/misc/LinkToUs/RssFeed_newBidRequests.asp

5. Click Ok button


Actual Results:  
Feed verification process is never ends (JavaSript console erorrs are desribed
in "details section").

Expected Results:  
Subscribe the new valid feed.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

WFM using today's branch TB build.  Please reopen if you can reproduce with a
recent TB build.

Comment 2

[Ibragim F. Youldachev]

Mozilla Tunderbird 0.9 version 1.0 (20041206).

The same probems with new version of Thunderbird.

The first error messages some changed (line number):

Error: feed has no properties
Source File: chrome://messenger-newsblog/content/Feed.js
Line: 117


Error: [Exception... "'error after downloading
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/LinkToUs/RssFeed_newBidRequests.asp:
couldn't retrieve feed from request' when calling method:
[nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]"  nsresult: "0x8057001e
(NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

Comment 3

[Robert Sayre]

This is a dupe of bug275153. My patch there will fix this as well. Tested.

Comment 4

[Doug Wright]

Not a dupe IMO, but certainly dependent upon

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Marking FIXED because the problem was (probably) taken care of by the patch at  
bug 275153.  The RSS URL in comment 0 is being properly added as a feed using a 
nightly trunk build (1.0+0222, Win2K).

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Oh -- there are a couple other patches for similar problems at bug 280696 and 
bug 259777.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 283888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***