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Topic: RSS forum RSS/Atom feeds broken

I'm not sure this is the appropriate place to post this, but couldn't find anything that was obviously more appropriate.

I noticed today that the RSS feeds that I use to monitor a couple of forums have been broken for a while, returning HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.

Fetching the feed with 'curl -v' shows HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error, and then, confusingly, the correct RSS output!  Same if I change the type to type=atom.  HTTP 500, but valid and correct Atom output.  For example, General Discussion forum RSS feed is "ht tp://forum.chumby.com/extern.php?action=feed&fid=26&type=rss" (sorry for broken-up link, I just registered to post and can't post links yet)

Since curl produces correct output, I can work around it in my feed reader, but thought I'd post to maybe get it fixed.

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Re: RSS forum RSS/Atom feeds broken

We'll look into that.

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Re: RSS forum RSS/Atom feeds broken

edgewood wrote:

I'm not sure this is the appropriate place to post this, but couldn't find anything that was obviously more appropriate.

I noticed today that the RSS feeds that I use to monitor a couple of forums have been broken for a while, returning HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.

Fetching the feed with 'curl -v' shows HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error, and then, confusingly, the correct RSS output!  Same if I change the type to type=atom.  HTTP 500, but valid and correct Atom output.  For example, General Discussion forum RSS feed is "ht tp://forum.chumby.com/extern.php?action=feed&fid=26&type=rss" (sorry for broken-up link, I just registered to post and can't post links yet)

Since curl produces correct output, I can work around it in my feed reader, but thought I'd post to maybe get it fixed.

It should be working for you now, my testing shows:

$ curl -I "http://forum.chumby.com/extern.php?acti … p;type=rss"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 22:37:39 GMT
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=6kl3mvi57ofmh4mghu84dsibi3; path=/
Expires: Thu, 26 May 2016 22:37:39 GMT
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: public
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Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.
  • Registered: 2016-05-25
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Re: RSS forum RSS/Atom feeds broken

I'm seeing the fix here, too.  Thanks!

  • From: Dallas, Tx
  • Registered: 2011-01-08
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Re: RSS forum RSS/Atom feeds broken

thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.