rss nonstandard port tls 1.2

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  andrzejl · Member · Aug 16, 2015 at 4:10 pm

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  Hi there.

  I was trying to add rss to my self-hosted blog onto my wordpress.com blog but its not working. By not working I mean this:

  1) The correct rss url to a working wordpress blog is provided
  https://andrzejl.eu:30303/wordpress/feed/
  2) WordPress.com blog tells me its down. Its not.
  3) No connection attempts are being logged by nginx

  I assume that one of the two factors has something to do with the ‘not working’ part.

  Its either the fact that I am using non-standard port 30303 or its the fact that I only allow communication over a strong crypto (TLS 1.2) with my site.

  https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=andrzejl.eu

  I don’t see _ANY_ attempts to connect (failed or successful) to the rss feed in my nginx logs so I am assuming its failing before even reaching that far.

  Question. What can be done about it.

  Cheers.

  Andrzej

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  andrzejl · Member · Aug 16, 2015 at 4:16 pm

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  Another possible point of failure here is that I do not allow any indexing bots to my site (google, bing etc.) is wordpress.com using any of that to grab the entries from the rss feed?

  Cheers.

  Andrzej

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  timethief · Member · Aug 17, 2015 at 9:10 pm

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  Hi there,
  Are you referring to enabling and RSS widget on a wordpress.COM blog? If so, then see here please https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 17, 2015 at 9:10 pm

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  Please consult the Troubleshooting section here as well https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/#troubleshooting

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  andrzejl · Member · Aug 18, 2015 at 5:59 am

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  Aha…

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

  That explains it.

  Thanks.