314954 - Feed does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 297569

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Chris Beck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

The weekly article feed for The Onion doesn't load.  Feed validator says it has problems:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffeeds%2Fweekly
But the problems they describe are empty link and language tags in the channel descriptor rather than any of the items - I think tbird should be tolerant of those errors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to add http://www.theonion.com/content/feeds/weekly to subscription list
2. Wait while nothing happens
3. Abort subscribe

Actual Results:  
Cannot subscribe to feed

Expected Results:  
Subscribed to feed, downloaded and read articles.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Checking that feed at  http://feedvalidator.org/  shows several errors, including this:
  line 6, column 7: link must be a full and valid URL [help]:  <link></link>

which is exactly the symptom described at the dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 297569 ***

Comment 2

[Chris Beck]

oops, searched for the feed name rather than the problem. sorry.