Getting error "Error loading feed" when adding RSS feed

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

libtorrent-0.12.6
rtorrent-0.8.6
ruTorrent 2.8
rss-1.5 plugin
cookies-1.3 plugin

Are some errors present in the web-server log?

no

Are some errors present in the browser console?

15:04:01? Error loading feed.
(http://www.bitmetv.org/rss.php?uid=********&passkey=********************)

Please provide any additional information below.

I have a problem with several sites.

I get 15:04:01? Error loading feed.
(http://www.bitmetv.org/rss.php?uid=********&passkey=********************)

I get this on many sites. Can't figure out what's wrong. Please help

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mala...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 4:20

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I tried adding this in cookie section:

www.bitmetv.org |pass=*********************;uid=******;
bitmetv.org |pass=*********************;uid=******;

But it didn't make any difference.

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 4:21

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you did it wrong.

www.bitmetv.org|uid=xxxxx;pass=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;

taken directly from my working cookies and xxx's out for your viewing enjoyment

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 4:31

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also, make sure you have both php-cli and curl installed
then make sure your $WEBROOT/rtorrent/config.php has the correct PATH 
information.

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 4:34

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I changed the cookie part as yours and changed the default values in config.php 
to
/usr/bin/curl and /usr/bin/php (which is correct) and I still get:

[15.12.2009 18:49:43] Error loading feed. etc

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 5:50

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which version of rutorrent are you using?
are you sure you have a valid link?
are you sure your cookie information is correct?
i've got several sites set up this way and know at least 5 other people who do 
too.

I hate to say it but you've probably made a mistake  SOMEWHERE

if you're not using rutorrent SVN then update to SVN

again, be sure you set your cookie like this:

each cookie on it's own line
host|uid=xxxxxx;pass=xxxxxxxxx;

that's WITH the hostname then a Pipe (|) then LITERALLY uid= and your uid ; 
pass=
your pass

this is what it might look like:

www.bitmetv.org|uid=223892;pass=sd87as67z90as667aihj;
some.other.site|uid=45211231;pass=2ds3s9676asty67g;
something.net|uid=289782;pass=e9089dwd78dy8dty8237t;

see how each cookie is on it's own line? site then pipe uid=;pass=;

make sure you don't have spaces, make sure you have the ;'s

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 6:43

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which version of rutorrent are you using?

2.8 not SVN

are you sure you have a valid link?

Yup it's working in FF and IE

are you sure your cookie information is correct?

yes

The only thing that I don't have that you have is SVN version so I will upgrade 
to
that one.

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 7:29

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changed ruTorrent and all plugins to SVN version and still the same result.

I really can't figure out what's wrong

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 7:43

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and you're sure you're using a proper link?  Your sure you have a WORKING curl 
and
working php-cli?

bitme's feed looks like this just to be sure you have a proper feed

https://www.bitmetv.org/rss.php?uid=xxxxxx&passkey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
x

All i know is it works fine for me, on serveral machines.  I've seen lots of 
people
have problems with this particular feed and EVERY TIME it is the cookie.

the other option is to code the cookie directly in the url.

This will work for SOME sites:

http://www.site.org/rss.php?uid=AAAAA&passkey=0000000000000000000000000000000&:C
OOKIE:uid=AAAAA;pass=00000000000000000000000000000000

note passkey and pass are NOT the same thing.

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 8:47

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Yea well .. I reinstalled curl and php5-cli without result. But since I can't 
get ANY
rss feed to work it's prolly something else than the cookie. Any ideas on where 
to
start looking?

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2009 at 10:32

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you said you changed the path to php in the config.php to /usr/bin/php .

Try doing it with /usr/bin/php-cgi instead (was having trouble with 
autolabel/move
and changing it to that fixed it for me)

Good luck , doing a fresh install atm and will check as i remember having 
issues with
rss feed before i tried doing this .

Let me know how it goes please :)

Original comment by slas...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 3:28

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1) Message "Error loading feed." doesn't has any relation to cookies settings.
Cookies is used for loading *torrents* from feed, doesn't for retrieving feed 
info.
2) Is feed available from your server? Try to ping it host or wget it url (from 
your
server, of course).

Original comment by novik65 on 16 Dec 2009 at 8:47

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if you use php-cgi you'll have problems with other plugins.

you need to get a valid cli version of php and make sure the php-cli.ini is 
correct.

Trust me, theres a lot of things that won't work (auto-tools) with php-cgi

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 2:34

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another thing to consider:

Some sites have it set up where you must use secure login.  secure login is set 
up in
such a way that if you log in from one ip (the url for the site) that you can 
only
download from this same ip.  There are ways around this, the best being to use a
firefox addon which spoofs your x-forwarded from ip

Some of these sites will have a profile setting "use secure login/use regular 
login"

pick regular

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 3:12

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I've tried RSS feeds that I know work on my windows box in utorrent. Also tried 
RSS
feeds that doesn't even need authentication like Demonoid. I've also tried TTi 
feed
where you can choose cookie auth, standard auth etc and set it to the most 
standard
settings.

All feeds work in utorrent and FF but not in my ruTorrent.

I got the php5-cli and curl deb packs .. that should be the correct versions?

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 5:42

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I've tried to wget streams from my server and that works fine.

Original comment by mala...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 5:43

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are you saying no feeds work? if no feeds work you're DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

I do setup seedboxes for people from time to time, so if you want to email me 
about
it you can.

wonslung@gmail.com

I know rutorrent works WITH rss in both linux and freebsd, although i find 
FreeBSD to
have much better load handling abilities.

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 5:50

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Might be wrong permissions too if giving the error right away .

Original comment by slas...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 10:08

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This issue has been resolved.

The problem was permission related for the rss feed.

Also, there was errors in the rtorrent/config.php which caused torrents to not 
start.

I've fixed this error so i'm closing this ticket

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2009 at 10:25

• Changed state: Done

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Hi, 

I am currently experiencing the same problem.
Can you please provide the solution to this problem?

Thank you

Original comment by bigw...@iinet.net.au on 17 Jan 2010 at 9:22

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You have to set rutorrent/share/users/ to chmod 777, then it's solved. I've not 
made any changes to rutorrent 3.2 and suddenly RSS stopped working. So I've 
upgraded to 3.3 and it did not help. So little experimented and figured it out. 
Interesting problem that is. Bad it ain't logged.

Original comment by pavel.he...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2011 at 4:50