RSS Feed Widgets & Google reader feeds

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  uniquefish · Member · Mar 29, 2006 at 3:20 pm

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  Hi,

  I am trying to add a google reader rss feed on a couple of rss feed widgets on my blog and the links produced are wrong.

  An example feed is this one: http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/02759319068381834089/label/blooks

  Whose bug is it? widget or google? (google feeds were introduced very recently).

  TIA

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  cornell · Member · Mar 29, 2006 at 4:10 pm

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  I don’t know for sure, but check the feeds in the widget. They appear to be putting your blog url before the feed url.

  This is because you’ve missed the colon (:) from the http:// in the feed url.

  Collin

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  uniquefish · Member · Mar 29, 2006 at 7:09 pm

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  Just checked it. The url is correct in the widgets.
  Thanks anyway Collin

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  cornell · Member · Mar 29, 2006 at 7:59 pm

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  are you sure?

  Taking out your site url the feed address (copied from your blog reads:

  http//belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_belledejour-uk_archive.html#114313655745961780

  see, no : in the http…

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  drmike · Member · Mar 29, 2006 at 8:22 pm

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  I confirm that that feed is messed up. I just tried placing it on my test blog here and it’s royally mucked up.

  I can’t get a RSS reader to work on my self hosted test blog so I can’t test it there.

  Bloglines won’t take the link shown above.

  I finally got an RSS reader to work over here. It’s not taking that link.

  I’m voting for the issue being on Google’s side (especially since Bloglines isn’t taking it) but I can’t say that with 100% certainity. (My experience with RSS is limited)

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  cornell · Member · Mar 29, 2006 at 9:45 pm

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  Well, there you go!

  I have even less experience with RSS than Mike so I’ll shut up! 8-)

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  uniquefish · Member · Mar 30, 2006 at 9:06 am

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  Re-checked. urls are correct :) wish i could include a screendump here. Wish I could find an rss validator out there.

  Will try alerting google as well on this.

  Thanks again

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  uniquefish · Member · Mar 30, 2006 at 9:35 am

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  The W3C rss validator says: “This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users.”

  Link

  ed: Link fixed so not to kill the browser. -drmike

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  drmike · Member · Mar 30, 2006 at 2:31 pm

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  From looking at the error report, it looks like it’s minor stuff though. At the bottom of the page, it does specificlly say that it is a valid Atom 1.0 feed.

  What I’m seeing though with that link is how all of the html had been encoded from the third line down. That makes me wonder if maybe that would be causing the issue.

  I’ve gone ahead and submitted a Feedback to staff asking them to take a look at this thread. Again, I know very little about RSS and feeds. Hopefully we can get a response.

  Good luck,
  -drmike

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  matt · Staff · Mar 30, 2006 at 4:13 pm

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  Our RSS reader currently only works with Atom 0.3 and RSS 2.0 feeds, it will mess up on Atom 1.0 as you see above.

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  uniquefish · Member · Mar 30, 2006 at 8:34 pm

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  Thank you guys!
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