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slr001

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Podcast XML feed error
« on: June 18, 2006, 03:26:27 pm »

Hey guys... new to v11, and new to Podcasts so might be operator error.

I have gotten some Podcasts to work, but this one seems to fail. Can someone try and see if I am doing something wrong?

http://www.bigpoker.ca/Rounders_rssfeed.xml

Thanks

Edit: v11.1.186
Also the feed seems to load fine in iTunes
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Re: Podcast XML feed error
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2006, 09:25:17 am »

Looks like it is an error handling the pubDate tag....

This is an entry prior to the error message

<pubDate>1 Feb 2006 10:07:31 -0800</pubDate>

This is the format the error message points to...

<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:49:16 0000</pubDate>

Looks like they started sticking the day of the week in front of the date.
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Re: Podcast XML feed error
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2006, 10:21:10 am »

I think the problem is that 0000 should be +0000 to be a valid time-zone offset.

We'll try to make MC more forgiving. (although the RFC822 date format is tightly defined and should be followed by all proper Podcasts)
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Re: Podcast XML feed error
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2006, 12:52:24 pm »

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slr001

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Re: Podcast XML feed error
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2006, 05:39:58 pm »

Thanks,

Will give it a try when I get home.
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Re: Podcast XML feed error
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2006, 03:51:29 pm »

I tried the latest update .188 with the following feed that threw errors in MC revision .183:

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http://www.onthemedia.org/index.xml

The error message reads:
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This podcast feed is not currently available, or contains a data format error.  Please notify the webmaster, or just check back later.

XML Field Error:  channel tag = pubDate value = Fri, 23 Jun 2006 24:00:00 GMT

This feed still throws the same error in .188.

I suspect this is a boundary value condition where the current logic doesn't know what to do with 24:00:00 (is it 00:00:00 AM or 00:00:00 PM)?   And it's arguable that 00:00:00 ever occurs.

I don't mind contacting the webmaster but what exactly should I tell him/her?  Tell them to reference RFC822 date formatting specification?

FeedDemon, iTunes, iPodder (aka Juice) and NewsGator handle this feed without issue as I expect others do.  I also suspect the webmaster may possibly push back given that other aggregators are not having issues with their XML file.
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Re: Podcast XML feed error
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2006, 05:05:20 pm »

For what it's worth, I emailed them about their tricky 24:00:00.  I'll let you know what they say.

In the meantime, is it possible for the parser to create a case for 24:00:00 and internally resolve it to 23:59:59?
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