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Re: RSS

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Sep 27, 2005
• 457 views

Ed Davis wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> >Therefore, I'm going to change the URL for the
> >RSS feed to:
> >
> >   <a
> >   href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss">http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss</a>
> 
> I went to my Yahoo page, and added the above on the "Add RSS by URL"
> page.
> 
> After a page that says "Get EUforum on My Yahoo!", I click "Add to My
> Yahoo!", and I get a page that says:
> 
> "We couldn't find the RSS file you asked for
> <a
> href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss">http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss</a>"
> 
> Interestingly, it works fine on my new Google home page.  It worked
> fine yesterday there also.  Of course, I had to change it on Google
> this morning.

OK, I deleted EUforum from my Yahoo news page, 
then tried to add it again using messages.rss.
It gave me the "We couldn't find..." message.

So then I copied messages.rss into messages2.rss,
and tried using that. It worked fine.

I think there must be some strange caching problem
on Yahoo. Maybe at a low level, some code thinks
it "knows" that the file doesn't exist, and doesn't
even try retrieving it (though somehow the "preview" works). 
When given a brand new file name, it actually tries to get it. 
On the other hand, I tried a couple of other rss files from 
other sites, and they seemed ok.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com