420004 - rss feed from local hard drive not recognized as rss feed

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

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

Description

[spence]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020511 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020511 Firefox/3.0b3

I have a vaidly formed RSS file.  If I host it somewhere w/ the appropriate mimetype, firefox 3 figures it all out and gives me the rss preview option.  I can then add it as a live bookmark. Yay.

If I have that rss file as a file on my hd, I cannot make it a live bookmark.  It worked in FF2 and FF1.  Can we have it understand that my rss feed can be from a local file like before?  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save an rss file to disc
2. Create live bookmark w/ it as feed
3. Click for the context menu, reload live bookmarks.
4. witness failed to load when looking at the live bookmark
Actual Results:  
live  bookmark failed to load

Expected Results:  
Menu items of rss feed items, not the actual results.

Comment 1

[spence]

Amendment: Not actual rss feed source code.  Nifty interface and bookmark folder containing items.

Comment 2

[Dan Fabulich]

Attachment: NYTimes Homepage RSS feed as of today

This bug is REALLY easy to reproduce.  I've attached a copy of the NYTimes home page RSS feed as of today.  Click on the attachment in Bugzilla; it will render as a live bookmark.  Now, save the attachment to disk and access it as a file URL.  It will render as raw XML.

Comment 3

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

This works for me on OSX with Firefox 3.7 and on XP with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a2pre) Gecko/20090902 Namoroka/3.6a2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20090902052327.

Can you reproduce this error on Firefox 3.5 or 3.6?

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

No, it doesn't work for you, his steps are just missing an essential step - save from it rendering the preview page will save the XHTML of the preview page, so when you reopen that it will look like a preview because it *is*. The right steps would be "click on the attachment, see the preview, click back, right-click the attachment link, save as, open the file."

Comment 5

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Oh...Yeah, that's a bug on all OSes.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a2pre) Gecko/20090904 Namoroka/3.6a2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20090904051716

Is this related to the fix for Bug 360705?

Comment 6

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

This is the problem: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/feeds/src/nsFeedSniffer.cpp#269

The browser doesn't find a file a proper interface and then doesn't parse the feed.

Assigning to me.

Comment 7

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

I'm not going to get back to this anytime soon.  So I am opening it back up to have someone else work on it.

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.