513930 - globally important RSS feeds reported as invalid by Brazilian Portuguese TB

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 348450

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: versão 2.0.0.23 (20090812)

Brazilian Portuguese TB reports globally important (and therefore presumably valid) RSS feeds as invalid when subscribing from the source page RSS button.

The problem occurs every time I try to register an RSS feed using the RSS button on the page which is offering the feed. I have _never_ succeeded in registering any RSS feed in this way, and I have tried feeds from many internationally important sites: NYT, BBC etc.

I can only register RSS feeds by copying the feed address from the RSS button and registering from within TB.

Is this a bug or the absence of a feature?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/GlobalHome.xml
2. click on the first RSS feed offered on that page:
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
3. a new RSS subscription page opens; on that page choose to subscribe the RSS feed in Mozilla Thunderbird and press the subscribe button ('Inscrever' in Portuguese)
4. TB opens and the status line reports the RSS feed as invalid and the feed is not registered (Note: at the time this is done an RSS account has already been created in TB and a number of other RSS feeds are already registered)

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I thunderbird the defaut application for RSS on your machine ?

Comment 2

[Chris Scott]

I was not aware that it was possible (or even necessary) to define a default RSS application in Windows. I therefore have no idea how to do this! If you can explain how I should do this I would appreciate it.

I am aware that one can define a default browser, but as RSS feeds can be obtained by various types of applications I imagine that defining a default browser has nothing to do with defining a default RSS application.

I find it strange that it is even necessary to define a default RSS application as it would seem perfectly reasonable for a person to want to receive such feeds in various applications, or indeed to receive certain feeds in one application but not in others.

As I understand it RSS feeds are registered with applications, and subsequently it is this (or these) application(s) which periodically check(s) for new feeds. If a default RSS application has to be defined then my understanding of the RSS mechanism would appear to be wrong. But if I am am wrong it would also appear to invalidate the very functioning of an RSS button on a web page, as that button takes the reader to a page which offers the possibility of registering the feed with any application. If a default RSS application is defined, what is the point of offering the possibility of choosing others? I'm very confused.

Some final details: my normal browser is Firefox in Brazilian Portuguese; my Thunderbird is in Brazilian Portuguese; my XP SP3 is in English.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Tools -> Options -> general , press the check now button. I'm just trying to see if your subscription problem comes from that or not.

Comment 4

[Chris Scott]

My TB is configured to check it is the default email program every time it starts, and has always been configured as such. In the Check Now dialog the Email and RSS lines are marked with a tick and disabled. The Newsgroup line is unticked and enabled.

I have never altered these settings since installing. I believe they are default settings. I use no other Email program.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Aureliano could you check that on 2.x ? In 3.0 it's even worse.

Comment 6

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Aureliano could you check that on 2.x ? In 3.0 it's even worse.
Now I can't, I'm sorry. I try saturday

Comment 7

[Chris Scott]

Forgive me, but Comment #5 would seem to suggest that there really is a problem. Could someone confirm whether that is the case, and, if so, whether the problem is just with Brazilian Portuguese TB or with several generational/language versions of TB?

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Comment 5 was just confusing bug 304704 (Tb3/Mac), with this, which is Tb2 not-Mac, already fixed for Tb3.