[Mediawiki-l] Broken RSS Feed

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 21:59:22 UTC 2005


On 7/8/05, Mark Cunningham <mark.cunningham at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running a MediaWiki 1.4.6 and I've noticed that the RSS (and atom)
> feed from Special:Recentchanges has become invalid.
> 
> As far as I can tell two blank lines are being inserted before the
> header and these seems to break any attempt to parse it using a
> newsreader.
> 
> I've looked at the code and I can't see anything wrong with the
> headers. I haven't modified the code at all.
> 
> The feed is @ http://irishgamingwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
> 
> and here is what a validator says about it:
> 
> http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http%3a%2f%2firishgamingwiki.com%2findex.php%3ftitle%3dSpecial%3aRecentchanges%26feed%3drss
> 


Just a guess, but does your Localsettings.php start with any blank
lines?  This has caused [problems with other things besides RSS IIRC



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