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Bug #36680 PHP.net RSS Feed Does Not Validate
Submitted: 2006-03-10 14:03 UTC Modified: 2007-06-07 18:11 UTC
From: niraj6 at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Irrelevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-10 14:03 UTC] niraj6 at yahoo dot com 
Description:
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As can be seen at:
http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.php.net/news.rss

The php.net RSS generator generates invalid RSS feeds. This renders the feeds unreadable in many RSS clients. I have tried it with RSS Bandit (rssbandit.sf.net) on which it is completely unreadable. Previous bug reports have been made dating back to 2004 which have been closed in 2004, stating the code has been fixed in CVS. It has been 2 years, but the fix does not seem to have propagated yet. Is that a fix for another issue or has the bug reappeared?

Reproduce code:
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Simply go to http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.php.net/news.rss and scroll down to see the source code.

Expected result:
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The RSS should validate.

Actual result:
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The RSS does not validate due to several errors.

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 [2006-03-10 15:07 UTC] goba@php.net 
Two permanent errors. The content-type is text/plain and the encoding is bad in the HTTP headers. These can be permanently fixed.

The other three errors are content specific. They should not have appeared two years ago, since these news items were not there two years ago.

First recategorizing as a systems problem, so the .rss content type and encoding header can be fixed on www.php.net.
 [2006-03-10 18:14 UTC] sean@php.net 
Systems problem fixed.
Reassigning as website problem.

sean@iconoclast:~$ curl -I http://www.php.net/news.rss
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:12:43 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) PHP/5.1.3-dev
Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:11:20 GMT
ETag: "37ee1c7-554a-44071928"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 21834
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8

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 [2007-06-07 18:11 UTC] bjori@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS. Since the websites are not directly
updated from the CVS server, the fix might need some time to spread
across the globe to all mirror sites, including PHP.net itself.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP.net better.

See also http://php.net/feed.atom
 
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