RFE: Please add "https" support to RSS feed widget

• 

  cyclofestivalgeneve · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 4:06 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  It would be much appreciated: both identi.ca (now running pump.io) and diaspora.org send Atom feeds over https only.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  kraftbj · Staff · Jan 7, 2014 at 4:57 pm

  • Copy link

  Hi,

  Can you send me a link to an https RSS feed that isn’t working when adding it to the RSS widget? My tests have HTTPS RSS feeds working.

  Thanks!

• 

  cyclofestivalgeneve · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 6:42 pm

  • Copy link

  Here they are:

  https://dspora.org/public/cyclofestivalgeneve.atom
  https://pump2rss.com/feed/(email visible only to moderators and staff)

  mmh, now I realize those are Atom feeds…

  The two RSS widgets configured with the above URLs both report (see bottom of my blog page) “Une erreur est survenue ; le flux est probablement indisponible. Veuillez réessayer plus tard.”, whereas Thunderbird and Firefox show them correctly.

• 

  cyclofestivalgeneve · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 6:47 pm

  • Copy link

  Ouch, the second URL got automatically mangled as it contains an ‘@’ character. Here’s a safe version (replace ‘AT’ with ‘@’):

  “https://pump2rss.com/feed/cyclofestivalgeneveATidenti.ca.atom”

• 

  kraftbj · Staff · Jan 7, 2014 at 7:02 pm

  • Copy link

  Thanks for the links. The issue seems to be neither with HTTPS or with Atom feeds, as I can have feeds with either option work, though I can confirm these two feeds aren’t working.

  I’m checking into it and will send you an update when I have something more. The second feed (with the @) isn’t validating, http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpump2rss.com%2Ffeed%2Fcyclofestivalgeneve%40identi.ca.atom , so I’m going to focus specifically on the first one for the cause.

  Thanks for your patience.

• 

  kraftbj · Staff · Jan 7, 2014 at 9:30 pm

  • Copy link

  It is a bug on our end. The library we use to parse the feeds is being tripped up by those. The fix isn’t easy, though, so it’ll likely take a bit of time for us to get it resolved.

  Cheers!

• 

  cyclofestivalgeneve · Member · Jan 10, 2014 at 1:15 pm

  • Copy link

  Thanks for fixing this!

  When done, please don’t forget to amend your support page as it currently states:

  Feed URLs that start with “https://” will not work on our RSS Widget.

  .

  Cheers!

• 

  kraftbj · Staff · Jan 10, 2014 at 4:55 pm

  • Copy link

  Will do. Thanks for the reminder :-)