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meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

I had RSS2HTML running perfectly at the end of last week. Monday morning, I come to work and it's not finding feeds, giving me an error message of:

Quote:

Unable to open RSS Feed http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+%2D+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0 with error HTTP ERROR: , exiting

I am using the following code:

Code:

? ? ? $XMLFILE = "http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+%2D+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0";
? $TEMPLATE = "../calendar/template.html";
? include("rss2html.php");
? ?>

The feeds themselves are fine. I can open them up in a feed reader.

Does anyone have any idea why it would suddenly stop working? There was no code changes from the last time it was working to when it stopped.

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Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2688

The trouble you're running in to is that the link to the feed has changed. Currently, you're referencing:
http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+%2D+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0

but when if you open that in a feed reader or browser, it redirects to:
http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+-+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0

As innocuous a change as it may be, this bit of the link is different: Library+%2D+ has changed to Library+-+. Try updating the script with the redirected link and let's see if the error still shows up.

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

Thanks so much for the reply. Unfortunately, that didn't do the trick.

The only weird thing I noticed is that when I copy/past the URL to Firefox it changes it from (which gives a 404 error):

http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+-+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0

to

http://hohost4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+-+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0

I thought it may be some bizarre copy/paste thing, but trying many times results in the same thing. It doesn't do this in Chrome or IE. (This probably has nothing to do with the problem, but thought I'd mention it.)

Here is one of the pages that contains feeds, if it helps at all: http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/calendar/index.php.

Thanks again.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2688

Can you post the link to the site that's giving you the error itself?

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

I'm planning on embedding the feeds on a number of pages. This is the one I've been troubleshooting for the past two days:

http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/calendar/index.php

The template file lives here:

http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/calendar/template.html

The RSS feeds come from here (I use the "Search Slider" function to select the criteria I want to display, then copy the RSS link from the top of the filtered results page):

http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventcalendar.asp?EventType=ALL&Lib=ALL

Is that what you needed?

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2688

Thanks, that's what I needed. Now, I went to http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/calendar/index.php but I'm not seeing any errors on the page?

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

It takes about 30 seconds before it times-out and displays the RSS2PHP error.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2688

Okay, this is... a little strange.

You're most likely getting the error because your webserver can't get to the RSS feed. What makes this really strange is that I can get to the feed, you can get to the feed but for some reason the webserver can't.

Do you have a way to try to read the feed manually while logged into the server? Basically, remote in to your web server and try to open the feed directly from the web server's browser or a feed reader on the server and see if you get that same error.

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

Our site is on the county's web server, and, sadly, I don't have access anything except for FTP.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2688

Try having one of the County techs view the feed from the server. Basically, it looks like something is preventing the server (but JUST the server) from viewing the feed and that's causing the error.

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

I'm working with our IT folks to see if we can figure it out. The county blocks a lot of web content, so I'm wondering if there was something with those feeds that triggered a block. Although I'm not sure that would affect the web servers, but who knows.

I'll let you know if we find a solution.

Thanks again for all your help. I appreciate it.

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

Update: Still not working, but I can eliminate it being because the domain is blocked...it's not.

Also discovered that no RSS feeds are working with RSS2HTML. Just for fun, I inserted a New York Times feed and I got the same error message on the page itself and the buildURL tool.

I'm stumped. I have no idea what could have happened over the weekend, that caused it to stop working.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2688

Something had to have changed on the web server either where it concerns PHP or where it concerns the specific rss2html script. I loaded up a test copy of the script on our site and am using your template and your feed and am not getting an error. Have a look:

http://www.feedforall.com/demo/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://host4.evanced.info/durhamcounty/evanced/eventsxml.asp?ag=&et=Children&lib=ALL&nd=1&feedtitle=Durham+County+Library+-+All+Branches&dm=rss2&LangType=0&TEMPLATE=http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/calendar/template.html

meccub · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 8

Yeah, it has to have something to do with PHP on the server. I just tried adding a feed via JavaScript and that worked.

I also tried a different PHP script and it had the same problem as RSS2HTML does.

Thanks for the help. I'm going to keep digging.