Bug: RSS Page Error
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URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=18978
Printed Date: 12 April 2026 at 4:03pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Bug: RSS Page Error
Posted By: Scotty32
Subject: Bug: RSS Page Error
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 11:33am
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i added the RSS Webwizforum RSS feed to my RSS Reader, and it hasnt updated for a few days now, so i was looking at the RSS page i noticed that the links are: feed://www.webwiz.net/bbsRSS_topic_feed.asp as you can see by the red bit, theres a / missing not sure if its in the released version, but its on this site atleast ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 12:26pm
| Thank Scotty, I am looking into this |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 3:58pm
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when i click the RSS button i get the following:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the javascript:location.reload%28%29 - Refresh button, or try again later. Access is denied. Error processing resource 'http://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_xslt_style.asp'. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 4:03pm
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This means that for some reason the online RSS viewer is not working for your browser. However, it will not prevent the RSS Feed from working correctly if you use an RSS News Reader or live RSS Bookmarks in your browser. MAC OS X has an RSS reader built in and so will windows Vista when that is released. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 4:08pm
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Also have errors when trying to view RSS through clicking the little orange RSS button on this forums main page. XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: http://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_topic_feed.asp?FID=18 Line Number 105, Column 437: ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 4:14pm
| Please see my last post in this topic as my reply will be the same. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 4:19pm
Sorry -boRg-  Thought i might just let ya know, It did work in version beta 2 (on FF and IE) ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 4:54pm
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ok, i must be misunderstanding the purpose as i usually click on the RSS button and grab the resulting URL. i take this URL and plug it into a javascript routine and display the feeds on a webpage. i've never used a desktop reader. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 5:05pm
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That is the usual way of doing it. But you can use an XSLT stylesheet which you can use for parsing XML and so display it in a web browser. XSLT is a bit like a supercharged version of CSS for XML but also have things like XPath which can be used for processing the XML like with a programming language. XSLT only works on browsers that support it, like IE6, Firefox, Opera, Safari, but as it is parsed the same way as XML if the parser doesn't like what it's getting you get an error like what you are getting. I'm not sure why your browser is unable to parse the XSLT stylesheet as this only effects a very small number of users and it is working fine in IE6, IE7, Firefox, and Opera on my test machines. However, even if your browser can not parse the XSLT stylesheet the XML for the RSS Feed is still produced fine and complies with the RSS Validator, so will still work in an RSS News Reader. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 5:09pm
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I've just looked at the error message again that you got, and it looks like it saying 'Access Denied' on the XSLT Stylesheet file which suggests that some settinsg on your PC or browser are preventing your browser from running the XSLT stylesheet. Again, this will not prevent the RSS Feed from working. However, if you could change your browser settings to allow the XSLT stylesheet to be parsed I would be very interested to know so that I can advise others with a similar issue. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 7:13pm
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A little update on this, The RSS feed is now working on IE6 and FF from a direct click on the orange RSS button  Earlier on it was only the main page RSS that wasn't working, with all others functioning fine. I made no changes at this end. Hope this info helps. ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 10:59am
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I think that sometimes posts can course the web browsers parser to not parse the XSLT file correctly and course the issue. What I will have to do is to try a findout why then create some filters to remove parts of the posts that course this issue, but this may take sometime to get the filters fully refined. |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 2:49pm
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http://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=18978 - http://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=18978 validated in my feed check and looks fine. In IE 6.0 SP 2 i still get the same error. when i look at it in Firefox 1.0.4 the content of the page displays but is all jumbled up and also shows the html. I suspect the problem is on my end, either with my browsers or because i'm going thru a proxy, a surf patrol nanny and a firewall. i need to try it at home and see what happens. i'll also go check for updates. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 3:00pm
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I think I can see the problem now. It looks like you are using the old .com domain name, if you use the webwiz.net domain name it should work. This may also explain your access denied problem in IE as I guess it can not parse an XSLT file from a different domain. It probably would be best to update to use the .info domain name anyway as it has been 4 years now since moving to the .info domain so will be making the .com into a redirect to the .info which should also help in search engine placement. |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 6:55pm
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i updated to IE 6.0 sp2 and now it works fine. note i'm still on the .com
edit: i also noticed a little unfiltered apostrophe...
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=18978&PID=102605#102605 - Bug: RSS Page Error : I've just looked at the error ... ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 9:49am
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I also made some changes to the file so it would work on the .com domain. I plan on writing a new site soon and once the change over happens I will be dropping the old .com domain name and just have the .info domain name for access to the site, so maybe worth updating your links. |
Posted By: neil.carter
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:25pm
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I am having a prolem with the RSS fed using IE. I get the following error An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://www.bhpc.org.uk/forum8/RSS_topic_feed.asp... <title>Website : What |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 March 2006 at 11:13am
| I shall look into this |
Posted By: AKA Arizona
Date Posted: 30 March 2006 at 1:25pm
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Mine did not work either, looking at the code on the RSS_Topic_Feed.asp page line 236 Original code <WebWizForums:feedURL><% = Replace(strForumPath, "http://", "") %>RSS_topic_feed.asp<% If intForumID <> 0 Then Response.Write("?FID=" & intForumID) %></WebWizForums:feedURL> Repaired code <WebWizForums:feedURL><% = Replace(strForumPath, "http://", "") %>/RSS_topic_feed.asp<% If intForumID <> 0 Then Response.Write("?FID=" & intForumID) %></WebWizForums:feedURL> Looking at the code you will see a red backslash that I added to the code and now the RSS works fine. ------------- Deputy Däve C.A.R. http://www.akaarizona.com/aboutme.html - Certified Accident Reconstructionist |