RSS Problem With Sage

[roadsweeper]

Hi

When I subscribe to the PH RSS feed on the 'General News' page and attempt to retrieve the headline list, I get an XML parse error.

I am using the Sage extension in Firefox which is a widely-used RSS feed reader so I'm not sure what the problem might be. My Sage installation works fine with feeds from the BBC, The Register and Yahoo, so could it be something now quite right with the PH feeds? :confused:

Cheers.

roadie.

[PetrolTed]

Thanks for mentioning it. I can't get Sage to work in my browser but have just loaded it in Thunderbird ok.

I'll run the feed through a validator.

[roadsweeper]

Ted,

This is a bit of a strange one. I've just gone through the process again and found the following:

Enter the General News page. Click on the orange XML button (as normal) and Firefox asks me where I want to save news091.asp. The same happens in IE. Clicking on the identical orange XML button on www.theregister.co.uk in either broswer works fine.

Only after the .asp save attempt has been made did the RSS feed seem to be tripped up for Firefox (when clicking on the orange RSS button that appears in the status bar at the bottom on RSS-enabled pages and attempting to subscribe).

Refreshing the page and going straight to the Firefox RSS buttom seems to work fine and I can now view the feeds.

I don't know if this is just some strange Firefox thing but it doesn't seem right that both Firefox and IE attempt to save an ASP page when clicking on the XML button or am I missing something blindingly obvious (quite possible as I'm half asleep!)?...

Hope this helps.

[PetrolTed]

Could you try it now please?

[roadsweeper]

PetrolTed said:

Could you try it now please?

Sorted.

What was the problem?

[PetrolTed]

ContentType was dubious. Setting it to plain XML seems to have done thet trick.