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

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Could you (Kevin as well as anyone else) forward me any details of
proxies that do this, what they do, how this breaks things, etc.?

In particular, I'm looking for a) technical details (addresses,
product information, what got modified, etc.) and b) testimonials
that are on the lines of "a proxy broke my application because... and
this is what happened as a result: ..."

(my day job is in the proxy/cache industry, and one of the growing
problems is convincing people that proxies that do this need to be
very careful about how they do it, or not do it at all).

Thanks!

P.S. it would also be interesting to see what HTTP error codes those
feeds returned.



On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:04:25AM -0700, burton@relativity.yi.org wrote:
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> "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:
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> > > The latest poll checked 2195 feeds. 48 were dead, and of those
> > > that responded, 224 returned XML that could not be parsed.
> > 
> > Some of the 224 aren't returning XML.  They're returning error
> > messages from the distant server.  The parser in syndic8 is
> > mistakenly attempting to parse this as XML, which of course
> > fails.
> <snip>
> 
> Yeah.  I think that a lot of people accidentally do this.  There is
> a significant bug in Reptile right now that will break it if you go
> through a Proxy or something that is rewriting your HTTP stream.
> 
> ... :(
> 
> Kevin
> 
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