714240 - Downloadcrew giveaway RSS doesn't work and folder update is broken.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 450543

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Serg Iv]

Attachment: My feeds folder

Hi, guys.

Several days ago I subscribed to this feed http://giveaway.downloadcrew.com/feeds/rss . But I could get only one message immediately after the subscribing and nothing on the next days. Tried to manually clean folder files and rdfs but nothing changed. Another interesting thing - now I have Bug 582960 for the folder with the new subscription (there are two feeds in the folder).

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111224 Thunderbird/9.0.1

I uploaded complete Feeds folder as attachment.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Serg Iv from comment #0)
The links itself contains only 1 RSS post.

Comment 2

[Serg Iv]

(In reply to Hashem Masoud from comment #1)
Yes but it's changed every day.

Comment 3

[Serg Iv]

Attachment: gif attachment to show how folder update is broken

Made an attachment to show how my folder update is broken (rel. to bug 582960).

Comment 4

[alta88]

the problem is this rss2 feed does not publish a <guid> (unique id) and the <link> is always the same, so Tb thinks a new item is a dupe.  there is a flaw in the unique id gen code in such a case.  there are a number of similar bugs, though it's not always easy to tell.

best to ask the publisher to create a <guid> (though it's optional per spec) otherwise see if bug 450543 gets attention (and handles this).

(there are a number of recent landed bugs that fix the longstanding folderpane move/delete issues, to hit Tb 11-13 in time).

Comment 5

[Serg Iv]

Thanks for the reply. I told Downloadcrew guys about this issue.
But how does this explain why RSS folder update is broken?

Comment 6

[alta88]

(In reply to Serg Iv from comment #5)
> Thanks for the reply. I told Downloadcrew guys about this issue.
> But how does this explain why RSS folder update is broken?

it is unrelated.  the folder/feed problem is complex; one way (of many) to break it was to merely dnd move a feed folder in folderpane.  but it should be fixed in upcoming releases.

Comment 7

[Serg Iv]

Today Downloadcrew guys added <guid> element to the RSS feed. Now both of these issues disappeared. Perhaps this bug should be closed.