The RSS Gadget should validate the feed URL

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Configure the gadget with an invalid RSS Feed URL.
2. Save the gadget settings.
3. Notice the gadget takes an invalid RSS feed URL.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It is expected the gadget would validate that the URL entered is a valid feed 
that could be played in the gadget:
1. The URL exists, 
2. it's an RSS feed, and 
3. the RSS format is supported).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mark.kre...@risevision.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 7:05

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Fixed in the new version of the Gadget. The Gadget uses the Google Feed API to 
try to retrieve the feed. If an error is returned by this API, the user will be 
unable to save the settings. No validation is performed with regard to the type 
of feed.

Original comment by donnapep@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2013 at 5:18

• Changed state: Fixed

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Verified.

Original comment by robb.pr...@risevision.com on 25 Feb 2013 at 9:23

• Changed state: Verified

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Original comment by donnapep@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2013 at 8:24

• Changed state: Deployed