274209 - Thunderbird does not get updates from woot.com RSS feed (but Firefox does)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Joe]

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

I am trying to use Thunderbird as my RSS reader. However, Thunderbird does not
get updates for the following RSS feed: http://rss.woot.com/feed.aspx

I know there is nothing wrong with the RSS feed because Firefox gets updates
from this feed just fine. Also, a program I have used called RSSReader works
(www.rssreader.com).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new "RSS News & Blogs" account in Thunderbird.
2. Go to Manage Subscriptions and add a subscription for
http://rss.woot.com/feed.aspx
3. Thunderbird will correctly go out and fetch the latest article from woot.com.
4. Woot.com updates this RSS feed once a day (Sunday - Thursday) at midnight
Central Time Zone.  Thunderbird will fail to fetch new articles.  Manually
clicking the Get Mail button does not fetch new articles either.

Firefox and RSS Reader (www.rssreader.com) have no problems getting the new
articles from this feed.

Actual Results:  
No new articles we fetched.

Expected Results:  
Fetched the new article after the RSS feed is updated.

Comment 1

[Cary Collett]

I am having this same problem, with all feeds I am subscribed to. I'm on Windows
XP SP2. I have the same set of feeds subscribed on a FC 3 machine and it works
fine. The other difference between the two (other than the OS that is) is that
on the Windows machine I don't have any email accounts set up, while on the FC 3
machine I do. - Cary

Comment 2

[Robert Sayre]

This feed uses the same value for all of its link elements, but the current code opts to use the link value 
instead of the guid for its identifier in the feeditems.rdf. The main issue here will be taken care of by 
my patch for bug264482 (I started making URIs from guids when possible). The second issue with this 
feed is that it had duplicate GUID values when I checked it (great...).

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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