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sdepold / jquery-rss

An easy-to-use rss plugin for jquery with templating.
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Handling problematic RSS URLs #145

Closed error161 closed 5 years ago

error161 commented 6 years ago

As an example, when I attempt to use the following RSS URL from NewsAdvance.com:

http://www.newsadvance.com/search/?q=&t=article&l=10&d=&d1=&d2=&s=start_time&sd=desc&c=news/local*&f=rss

I receive an error in the console that it is not an RSS URL. It appears to be one, but I think because it is formatted as a query and not a direct XML/RSS , it's not able to be parsed. Is there a different way these URLs need to be handled, or a way for the script to "pull" the actual RSS file from that query URL and then use that to grab the feed?

Edit Actually, I noticed a URL like this works fine: https://www.wsls.com/feeds/rssFeed/feedServlet?obfType=GMG_RSS_TEASERS&siteId=800011&categoryId=80041&nbRows=20&FeedFetchDays=10&includeFeeds=True

So I am curious what it does not like about the URL from NewsAdvance.

SimpleProgrammingAU commented 6 years ago

A difference I spot straight away between the two URLs is that the first one is not SSL. Is SSL set to false? Could that be causing the issue?

error161 commented 6 years ago

That's possible. Sorry for the delay in getting back on this. I'll check if that may have been it

sdepold commented 5 years ago

I'll close this issue because the feed no longer exists. Feel free to re-open the ticket if you experience issues with other URLs