297215 - RSS feed cannot be establish

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[crankshaft]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The RSS feed options does not work for any of the sites that I have tried.   The
CNN is the one that is a great model for all of them.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
The browser gives a the message:


        This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated
with it. The document tree is shown below.
      
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	<rss version="2.0">
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	<channel>
<title>CNN.com</title>
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	<link>
http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/?section=cnn_topstories
</link>
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	<description>
CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top
stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more.
</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>© 2005 Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:37:43 EDT</pubDate>
<ttl>5</ttl>
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	<image>
<title>CNN.com</title>
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	<link>
http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/?section=cnn_topstories
</link>
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	<url>
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif
</url>
<width>144</width>
<height>33</height>
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	<description>
CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top
stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more.

Comment 1

[crankshaft]

Attachment: Before accessing RSS connection

Comment 2

[crankshaft]

Comment on attachment 185793 [details]
Before accessing RSS connection

This is the screen before clicking on the RSS feed.

Comment 3

[crankshaft]

Attachment: This the results after clicking on the link

This is the screen after clicking on the RSS feed.

Comment 4

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

I believe that is the expected behaviour, If you want the feed to look pretty
you can use the feedview extension.

The RSS feed is being established however it is simply displayed as a XML tree. 

As stated this bug is WFM.

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Open Bookmarks manager
select: File -> New Live Bookmark
paste the feed url in the feed location field and close it
Close bookmarks manager and go to the live bookmark you just created....