"Internet Explorer cannot display this feed" error for both RSS FEED and RSS DIGEST

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click on RSS FEED or RSS DIGEST in Internet Explorer 8 or 9.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see the RSS feed or digest like I do in Firefox 4 or Chrome 12. 
Instead I see the following error in IE7:

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed 

    This feed contains code errors. 
     Go back to the previous page. 

     More information 

Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported.
 Line: 1 Character: 40

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

In IE9, I only see the following:

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed 

    This feed contains code errors. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using ELMAH version 1.2.13202.2249. The client OS is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 
bit.

Please provide any additional information below.
The issue does not occur in the last stable release of elmah, version 
1.1.11517.2009.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by timothy....@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2011 at 3:07

Attachments:

• [IE RSS Error.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/elmah/issue-220/comment-0/IE RSS Error.png)

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I once referenced IE7: "Instead I see the following error in IE7". This should 
be IE8, not IE7.

Original comment by timothy....@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2011 at 3:08

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I retested with ELMAH 1.2.13605.0 and the problem still exists. I'm using the 
.NET Framework 1.1 build of ELMAH.

Original comment by timothy....@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 5:32

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> I'm using the .NET Framework 1.1 build of ELMAH

Hadn't been able reproduce until now. The key bit of info missing was the 
target .NET Framework version. Now I can confirm the issue, even with the 1.2 
release.

Original comment by azizatif on 12 May 2011 at 5:57

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: DotNet-1.0, DotNet-1.1, Component-Logic

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I apologize for not including that info earlier. I only noticed that I hadn't 
included it when I reviewed my initial post today.

Original comment by timothy....@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 6:10

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This seems to happen because the HTTP response content-type reads 
"application/xml; charset=utf-8", claiming a UTF-8 character set whereas the 
RSS/XML document in the response entity starts with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
IE rejects the document. I suppose other browsers are being more forgiving or 
take the documents encoding hint as an override.

Original comment by azizatif on 12 May 2011 at 6:29

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Original comment by azizatif on 31 May 2011 at 6:59

• Added labels: Milestone-Release1.2SP1

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Original comment by azizatif on 31 May 2011 at 8:24

• Changed state: Started

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Fixed in r895.

Original comment by azizatif on 31 May 2011 at 8:24

• Changed state: Fixed