Question

Since our installation of 4.2, We get an error, "Invalid Feed URL," when we try to subscribe to an RSS feed from a WebRss topic. RSS worked under our 4.1 installation.

When trying to view the RSS feed in Safari, the error is, "Too many redirects occurred trying to open “feed://our.wiki.com/bin/view.cgi/Main/WebRss”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

Anyone have any ideas about how to fix it?

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-- DavidWolfe - 09 May 2008

Answer

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Update: RSS and Atom both work on any RSS reader on Macs running 10.4.x. Neither RSS nor Atom work on any Mac running 10.5.x. Some readers report the error I quoted above. If one tries to read the feed in Safari, the browser redirects many times, then reports an error that states that too many redirects were attempted. Firefox can display the RSS, but it does so in a seemingly completely different manner: It makes bookmarks of each headline. Selecting the bookmark loads the TWiki topic in the window.

In addition, our now-unused 4.1 server RSS feeds still work fine if we point a reader to them. Is there some incompatibility between the 4.2 RSS feeds and the new RSS capabilities of Mac OS X 10.5?

-- DavidWolfe - 16 May 2008

Sorry, closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if necessary.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Jul 2008