RSS Feed Not Completely Compatible

shakeme · March 2nd, 2009, 11:16 AM

I am waiting for access to the forums again but this won't solve my problem for an otherwise excellent product I've been using for years. Chuck will solve this one so if you're using Wordpress and image feeds, don't worry...

I'm using wordpress and simplepie to show images in an RSS feed. Works perfectly for almost everything, such as pulling from this link:

NASA Image of the Day

Photopost's RSS feed provides me with the problems these people are having - and ONLY from Photopost's feeds, even from your reeftalk site. There must be some incompatibility that I'm not picking up on that is causing the problem.

RSS Image Widget | Zack Design

Interestingly enough - this feed words from Yahoo:

Yahoo! News: Entertainment News

The first link has no picture and causes an error - the same one, saying there is no picture. But the other ones do have pictures and they work fine.

Looking and comparing URLs of the photos that work:

From Reeftalk that don't work:

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/data...aa6f1bd3ec.png

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/003.JPG

From Yahoo and NASA that DOES work:

http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com...b2addb.jpg?v=2

http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com...33ad3d.jpg?v=2

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/3...93_516-387.jpg

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So I'm wondering - could it be a permissions issue? The script seems to be trying to store images in an ".spc" file in the cache directory and I wonder if Photopost isn't allowing you to do so in the data directory, e.g. some anti-leeching measure. Apparently some other people online have encountered the same problem. This can eventually be removed to a support area.

shakeme · March 2nd, 2009, 12:42 PM

More research shows the rss feed from reeftalk breaking up but not for other rss feeds. The picture isn't showing and instead I'm seeing the actual URL being spat out in the reader. Seems to work perfectly in parsing yahoo's feed and others.

02/26/2009 10:24 AM
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02/12/2009 09:36 AM
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02/04/2009 09:38 AM
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a href=http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1438 target=_blankimg title=003.JPG border=0 src=http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/003.JPG alt=003.JPG //abr /br /by: Chuck S

06/25/2008 06:04 PM
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11/30/2007 03:38 PM
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shakeme · March 2nd, 2009, 12:47 PM

Thank me later chuck, lol. I think I solved the problem:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

The first example is Yahoo, the second is photopost right before the href. Apparently the readers might not be parsing out this portion properly and best using the ascii representation. I wonder if modifying the code to make this work could work?

Chuck S · March 2nd, 2009, 12:51 PM

Well Not sure what your trying to say here but this discussion does not seem to have anything to do with the Photopost coding. Our RSS feed works and is valid RSS from what I see. This seems to be about something your trying to do in some other program.

Our links work and link to the actual photo etc etc

Now lets look at your yahoo link you say works with whatever your trying to do. It simply is not valid rss

Feed Validator Results: http

Now lets look at my site for an example and the RSS Feed from the gallery

Feed Validator Results: http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/external.php?type=RSS2

Thats a completely valid RSS feed.

Chuck S · March 2nd, 2009, 12:53 PM

i see my feed just fine all images etc from multiple computers.

I showed you the W3C validation results on the photopost rss script.

Chuck S · March 2nd, 2009, 01:06 PM

Feed Validator Results: http

Same thing different one of our scripts different domain the rss validates just fine

shakeme · March 3rd, 2009, 11:44 AM

Chuck - if Yahoo syndication doesn't seem to care enough about "the validator" then... well... you know where I'm going with this, lol!

The validator validates pages that don't work and will spit out 50 errors for pages that are actually fine...

Here's the scoop - yes, I can SEE the pictures in a browser. I've tried several different PHP based rss feeds - which you'd think is a large purpose of using RSS to distribute your feeds in a popular format. NONE of them seem to work with the photopost image feed - all work with Yahoo, Nasa and the others. Here are examples:

RSS2HTML PHP service and server side downloadable:

YOURS: ReefTalk.com

YAHOO: Photo Highlight on Yahoo! News Photos

The feed into Wordpress - standard wordpress using the "SimplePie" plugin works perfectly with Yahoo but not with your validated but not working feed - and I love fish (I'm a big freshwater guy who may be using PP for his foray too but may be tempted to also just join the reef, lol.) Regardless of what happens in the validator, if you can't get the feed working with Wordpress as standard, it might make you wonder whether an adjustment should be made.

Perhaps here's a better request - could you suggest places that are using this feed and that it's working for them? I can't get it to just fill in what I need properly on the home page of a client site.

Chuck S · March 3rd, 2009, 11:49 AM

A valid RSS feed is used in a FEEDREADER one installs on there computer to keep track of new news threads etc.

Free RSS reader / RSS platform for enterprise grade solutions | Feedreader.com

The Photopost RSS feed is completely valid and much the same as the vbulletin feed used in vbulletin.

We code to the actual RSS VALIDATION and requirements. So validating our feed at W3C.ORG I show would be correct.

Your issue seems to be more of a how do I get it working with wordpress which might be best asked at wordpress support. I know nothing about what there specs are. In Photopost your dealing with a valid RSS 2.0 feed put out based on the RSS 2.0 specification. There is nothing really I show we need to change in our code.

Yahoo is its own RSS service so sure they may not care about validation and doing things like they should be done based on the actual specification.

Chuck S · March 3rd, 2009, 12:17 PM

Now your talking about some service creating an RSS feed into HTML

Lets try RSS2HTML which is a very popular script you can run free on your site here it is here

ReefTalk.com

I simply enter the feed url as this and as you can see my html prints fine

ReefTalk.com

Chuck S · March 3rd, 2009, 12:23 PM

Here is another example I run vbulletin and you can enter RSS feeds there and I added our rss script and it here you go worked fine grabbing feed content

RSS Feeds - Reeftalk Forums

shakeme · March 3rd, 2009, 12:50 PM

Chuck... this is certainly weird!!!! Thanks so much for the help and the quick feedback!!!. The issue isn't getting it to work in wordpress. I can't even get it to work in rss2html - the links i used are using the latest version the I downloaded and installed. I realize that, for whatever reason, it isn't parsing the HTML being generated from photopost.

I'm wondering if there is just a setting with rss2html that isn't parsing properly on my site and does this automatically for Yahoo. Now using the feedforall site the photopost feed DOES work - so I apologize.

But there still is a compatibility issue "out of the box" with some alternatives although I'm not sure the PP is "per se" a problem but rather that they all work a certain way, PP may be compliant but these "standard" tools don't care, lol. I'll keep you posted with what I discover...

and as always, thanks SO much for the great support.

Chuck S · March 3rd, 2009, 01:06 PM

I just downloaded the rss2html script right before my post

This is the only configuration item I set

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

shakeme · March 3rd, 2009, 03:55 PM

Apparently it's server security related. For whatever reason photopost's feed is affected probably due to images and also due to the fact that it is originating from this server. Can't explain it, but glad to say the feed works and apologize for assuming it was photopost (and glad that I didn't vent too much and assumed we'd figure it out.

) So this hopefully will help others with this problem.

Chuck S · March 3rd, 2009, 09:08 PM

Not a problem as always glad to assist even if its to explain how things are suppose to work and give examples.

helkoryo · April 17th, 2009, 04:48 PM

Not sure if this is relevent or if it helps but it might be of interest

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