Re: [tlug] Thunderbird RSS different from FireFox?

["Orlando Echevarria" <cycloneous@example.com>]

Check the "Content-Type" header that is being sent out by the PHP.
This will tell you if the "Content-Type" is either HTML or XML. The
content-type header should be "Content-Type: text/xml"

Orlando

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> This is one of those situations where I'm so removed from any understanding
> of the problem that I'm not sure what questions to ask.
>
> I've created a simple XML file to support an RSS feed for some web page
> content. Works like a charm if I open the XML in FireFox. It reads it as an
> RSS feed and comes up with the usual interface asking if you want to
> subscribe to the RSS feed.
>
> In Thunderbird, it's a different story. When I add the URL to the XML file
> in Thunderbird's RSS interface, it validates as a legitimate RSS feed. But
> when I go to the RSS folder to actually look at the web page, I get an PHP
> generated error saying there is an invalid class name.
>
> The PHP is part of a huge CMS, so I don't want to get bogged down in the PHP
> code, at least not at first. That said, I've seen this error before and it
> usually means that the session has bad cookie data in it that is confusing
> the names of stored variables.
>
> The bottom line is, though, why would I get different results in FireFox and
> Thunderbird? Not only would I have thought RSS was a pretty simple thing
> that would be hard to get wrong, I also assumed Thunderbird and FireFox
> would be largely based on the same code.
>
> What would be some possible avenues to explore to discover why it works in
> one and not the other?
>
> Any advice much appreciated.
>
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