280696 - Thunderbird does not read as valid feed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Will Budreau]

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

I am able to view this feed without issue in FireFox
But when I try to add the feed in thunderbird, I get an error message


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See links to RSS at http://laughingsquid.org/blog/2005/01/02/squidlist-rss/
2. Add the RSS feed to Firefox, using RSS feed in status bar, or using the link
listed in the page
3. View RSS items successfully in FireFox
4. Open Thunderbird, select an RSS "account" in left pane
5. Choose "Manage Subscriptions..."
6. Try to add the subscription "http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist"


Actual Results:  
"http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist is not a valid RSS feed"


I already e-mailed laughing squid to see if they have experienced this.

Comment 1

[Hiro]

Confirm.

Tb 1.0 Release
Windows XP

Comment 2

[Will Budreau]

So there's a workaround (worksforme), but looks like FeedBurner and Thunderbird
are not compatible.

Laughing Squid wrote:

> Ok, I think I found the problem. We send all of our feeds through FeedBurner
and for some reason it looks like they do not yet support Thuderbird's RSS
reader. So, the workaround would be to just use our direct RSS feed and that
should work fine with Thuderbird: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/squidlist.rss
>
> Scott 

Comment 3

[Robert Sayre]

This is a bug with the test for the for the feed types. I've spotted two instances of this now. The first is 
with the feedburner feed above, which uses an element from the Atom namespace. The second is with 
Sam Ruby's feed http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/index.atom, because he mentions the rss1.0 
namespace in his text. I'm going to patch this by checking the document element explicitly.

Comment 4

[Robert Sayre]

Attachment: Check for Atom and RSS1 using DOM instead of regex

Comment 5

[Eric Lunt]

I implemented a workaround in FeedBurner so that the <atom:link> element is
stripped when delivering to Thunderbird 1.0, so the problem feed should now work
fine, but Robert's patch is the way to go for future builds.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

fix checked in.