bill
msg:3827612 | 5:23 am on Jan 16, 2009 (gmt 0) |
The first thing I'll ask is does your feed validate? [validator.w3.org] How long are you waiting for the feed to update? Sometimes it can take a while depending on the software's update schedule.
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surrealillusions
msg:3827896 | 4:05 pm on Jan 16, 2009 (gmt 0) |
The feed validates. I've waited for over 24 hours now, but still no luck. Had other feeds come through fine both days.
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bill
msg:3828337 | 8:46 am on Jan 17, 2009 (gmt 0) |
What's generating the RSS and how are you updating the file?
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surrealillusions
msg:3828499 | 6:06 pm on Jan 17, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I've built the RSS file myself, and I simply upload it to the server where my site is. I'm probably not completely understanding how RSS works if this is wrong. :)
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bill
msg:3828704 | 2:29 am on Jan 18, 2009 (gmt 0) |
What's the template for the RSS you're using? Did you write the whole thing from scratch? Did you copy a working feed and replace the info with your own? Are you using a feed editor? Maybe you could post a snippet of code (use example.com for any domain specifics.)
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surrealillusions
msg:3829070 | 9:48 pm on Jan 18, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I built it from scratch using some online tutorials and looking at other RSS feeds. Heres what i have, although ive only put the one item in there. The only other item is pretty much the same except without the pubDate. <?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>RSS News Feed</title>
<link>http://www.example.com/</link>
<description>Updates and latest news.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<docs>http://www.example.com/news.xml</docs>
<item>
<title>News Title</title>
<description>
<img src="http://www.example.com/image.jpg "><br />
See the latest news and images at <a href="http://www.example.com/image/">photo blog page</a>. Some more description</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://www.example.com/image/</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
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bill
msg:3829361 | 7:38 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
The RSS 2.0 spec [cyber.law.harvard.edu] lets you have a <pubDate> for the channel as well. Look at how they use it in their sample feed.
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dogdog172
msg:3897162 | 5:11 pm on Apr 21, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Hi surrealillusions, have you finally got your own RSS feed updated automatically in Thunderbird? I am very interested in it since I am facing exactly the same issue as yours.
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