390122 - Firefox fails to detect as feed and renders as xml

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 364677

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This feed (which admittedly isnt perfectly valid but close enough I think) isn't detected by Firefox as a proper feed and displayed in the feedreader. I've confirmed this in Bonecho and Minefield. The page is sent as text/html however somehere along the way Firefox is deciding to display it as if it were xml.

I think it's a failure that it isn't detected as a feed in the first place, though if the feed really is that bad that we can't autodetect from it then fine, but I think it's a worse failure to display it as a mimetype which is neither what it is sent as nor something that we safely parse.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

<channel> needs a valid <link> node for firefox to detect it.

> The page is sent as text/html

actually it's sent as text/xml, which explains firefox's behavior.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Hmm that's kinda weird, the header sniffer I have used and trusted for so long claims otherwise, guess I need to find some new tools.

It seems strange to need a valid <link> in order to detect as a feed?

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

You could work around it by updating to viewvc trunk - I upstreamed a couple of bugs from bug 387199, and they've fixed them both.

Comment 4

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified Duplicate.