Comments on: New tool: sednames

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:02:43 +0000

The Last-Modified date is probably because FeedBurner shows the number of comments on the feed. This post is in the last ten, so it's still in the feed (I forgot what I set the number to, but it's at least ten). So, every comment on this post bumps the feed.

Getting back to the encoding problem: I just tried the FeedBurner feed in NetNewsWire 3.1 and it works fine. The quote marks in this post show up as quote marks.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:56:34 +0000

I'm subscribed directly to feedburner. Here's what I see (via curl). Note last-modified date.

I'll switch to Atom, in any case.

curl -L --verbose -O http://feeds.feedburner.com/domainofthebored
* About to connect() to feeds.feedburner.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 66.150.96.119... connected
* Connected to feeds.feedburner.com (66.150.96.119) port 80 (#0)
> GET /domainofthebored HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
> Host: feeds.feedburner.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.0 200 OK
< Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:45:41 GMT
< Server: Apache
< X-FB-Host: app86
< Last-Modified: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:41:54 GMT
< ETag: eLBbRlgLEs6aXC/Csb8GzK9fINY
< P3P: CP="ALL DSP COR NID CUR OUR NOR"
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:06:14 +0000

Hmm, the quotes are using raw 8-bit characters and that may (obviously) be causing problems if the encoding is not set correctly.

The Atom feed says:

Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8

The RSS feed serves up a redirection (Moved Permanently) whose HTML depiction says:

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"

The destination of that redirection is FeedBurner, which says:

Content-Type: application/atom+xml;charset=utf-8

So, make sure you're subscribed directly to the FeedBurner URL, and it should definitely work.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:43:10 +0000

That actually happens to me a lot with this RSS feed (and no others, out of about 140) for some reason. I'm also using NNW.

Hmm, the quotes are using raw 8-bit characters and that may (obviously) be causing problems if the encoding is not set correctly. They show up correctly in Safari, but as ??? in NNW at the moment. I can't imagine why that should cause the feed to be marked unread, though.

But I'm not writing solely to kvetch, no! I will share a marginally relevant tidbit. The Unix Haters Handbook has a great quote from Jamie Zawinski on sed:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use sed.' Now they have two problems."

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:47:35 +0000

"No biggie. Unless it is happening for other people."

It is. Netnewswire shows the quotation marks changing each time.

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:37:31 +0000

Strange - I've done that (a couple of times), and this post, as well as only two others, (WWDC Survival Guide, and the Keyboard one) keep reappearing the newly updated feeds list.

No biggie. Unless it is happening for other people.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:34:50 +0000

Matthew Schinckel: I haven't edited it in a week or so. Try unsubscribing and resubscribing, or clearing out your feed reader's folder in Library/Caches.

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:05:58 +0000

I don't know why, but this post keeps reappearing in my feed. Over and over again.

I think there are minor edits being made to it, but I don't know that you are necessarily intending for it to repeatedly appear in the feed.