Re: [syndication] Re: syndic8.com OCS feed fails parse.

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <20010929141702.G5591@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham
<mnot@mnot.net> writes
>P.S. it would also be interesting to see what HTTP error codes those
>feeds returned.

There's quite a number of RSS sources out there that:- 
- Return 200 OK with an HTML message for "feed not found"
- Return 200 OK with an HTML message or truncated XML followed by HTML
for "Sorry, our code blew up"
- Return an XML stream as text/html
- Return XML with entities partially encoded or encoded with the HTML
4.0 (or earlier) scheme, not the XML scheme or make up their own
encoding scheme. Or double encode (&amp;amp; !).

Grrrr! Worrying about RSS standards is a bit premature if we can't
support XML and HTML correctly. And incorrectly supporting http return
codes is just silly.

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