273834 - thunderbird rss reading mechanism broken - valid feed not being displayed or read correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264482

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[alvolas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

This feed, which is ok with feedvalidator and all feed-reading tools I know of
still seems to trouble thunderbird even in version 1.0. When adding the feed,
thunderbird checks the full amount of items inside the feed (about 30) but
displays only the latest item. Also then the feed doesn't get updated be it
manually or automatically. This seems to indicate a major problem with the rss
mechanism, that's why I felt the need to properly post this bug. I think the rss
feature is a major part of thunderbird, and valid feeds not being read correctly
is a huge loss in usability of thunderbid.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add feed http://www.baka-updates.com/rss.php
2.Look inside the newly created Feed folder in thunderbird

Actual Results:  
only 1 item present (newest), and later updates yield no change even if the feed
changes.

Expected Results:  
All items should be displayed (about 30) and new items should be added when the
feed changes.

Comment 1

[alvolas]

Bug is currently not apparent, this feed works at the moment.

Comment 2

[Robert Sayre]

This is a duplicate of bug264482, but it is legitimate. The feed fails when <link> is absent or invalid in 
a given item.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

duping per comment 2.  With TB 1.0+0222 (nightly trunk build) this feed is 
loading properly; I have not examined whether the symptom described (by the 
reporter of *this* bug) in bug 264482 comment 1 is still an issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264482 ***