337067 - blogs.oracle.com: Hang during "Verifying the RSS feed"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 297569

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[andrew finkenstadt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

When choosing "Manage Subscriptions", clicking "Add", and entering in the URL of "http://blogs.oracle.com/readingLists/oracleblogs.xml", Thunderbird gets stuck at "Verifying the RSS feed..." without successfully adding it to my local feed list.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1."Manage Subscriptions"
2."Add"
3.http://blogs.oracle.com/readingLists/oracleblogs.xml

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird gets stuck at "Verifying the RSS feed..." without successfully adding it to my local feed list.


Expected Results:  
successfully adding it to my local feed list.

successfully adding it to my local feed list.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It does hang, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060508 Thunderbird/2.0a1 ID:2006050804

... but the feed isn't valid:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.oracle.com%2FreadingLists%2Foracleblogs.xml

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This error from the validation page:
  line 5, column 8: link must be a full and valid URL

is already a known issue with TB's RSS parsing.

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