Bugzilla – Bug 2693
slashdot and bbc rss entries don't work lately
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:38:25 UTC
Observed in 6.2.x branch r5375 -- are these feeds invalid now or something? 2005-12-07 11:40:55.4069 RssNews: getting feed from http://slashdot.org/index.rss 2005-12-07 11:40:55.7455 ERROR: Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTP::request: Couldn't retrieve track object for: [http://slashdot.org/index.rss] 2005-12-07 11:40:55.7485 RssNews.pm failed to retrieve news from http://slashdot.org/index.rss. 2005-12-07 11:41:25.1224 RssNews: getting feed from http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml 2005-12-07 11:41:25.7334 ERROR: Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTP::request: Couldn't retrieve track object for: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml] 2005-12-07 11:41:25.7361 RssNews.pm failed to retrieve news from http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml.
Subject: Re: New: slashdot and bbc rss entries don't work lately I'm seeing this too, but it seems to be working on 6.5.
bbc redid their feeds. I changed the defaults in change 5010 so that is is now: 'BBC News World Edition' => 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml', This was only in trunk. Slashdot, I can't explain.
slashdot seems fine for me still. default bbc feed is changed in slimserver. has it been changed in SqueezeNetwork as well? If so, this could be closed.
bbc is broken again. have several people emailing in about this issue. 2006-02-28 16:07:43.9821 RssNews: getting feed from http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml 2006-02-28 16:07:44.4850 ERROR: Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTP::request: Couldn't retrieve track object for: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml] 2006-02-28 16:07:44.4857 RssNews.pm failed to retrieve news from http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml.
those urls seem to still be the old one. using firefox, the old url still works, but at the time I made my change, there was a redirect involved. users may want to change the feed manually, if they dont' want to just revert all feeds to the defaults
committed the new url as a default feed for 6.2.2, change 6458. existing users will have to revert to defaults or edit the feed url manually if they have custom feeds that they want to keep. I have not had any problems on my setup since using this new url.
The slashdot feed was broken, it's been moved with a 301. I've fixed it for new installs. Redirection should work for 6.3 for folks who have the old URL still in place.
The new RssNews plugin supports redirection via SimpleAsyncHTTP, so this is fixed.
Verified in SlimServer Version: 6.3.0 - 7895 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
This bug fix is now part of a released version, and so has been marked closed. If you are still experiencing this problem, please reopen the bug.