Mahara

Feedburner feeds are not updating properly

Bug #807341 reported by François Marier on 2011-07-08

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mahara	Fix Released	Medium	François Marier	Mahara 1.5.0

Bug Description

Version: both 1.4_STABLE and master

This looks like it might have something to do with feedburner.com sniffing user agents because as soon as I add this news.com.au to the block, I get a list of articles that's different from what I see when I open the feed in Firefox:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newscomaubreakingndm?format=xml

This feed however, which doesn't use Feedburner, works fine:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/rss/

I've put both of them on a new page on mahara.org:

http://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=41749

See original description

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François Marier (fmarier) wrote on 2011-07-08:

Patch which seems to fix the problem Edit (573 bytes, text/x-diff)

Changed in mahara:
assignee:	nobody → François Marier (fmarier)
milestone:	none → 1.5.0
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
description:	updated

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François Marier (fmarier) wrote on 2011-07-13:

https://reviews.mahara.org/471

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote on 2011-07-24: A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/471
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/4a922cef79c7eecdd1552a16a5064f32604ba1f9
Submitter: Richard Mansfield (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 4a922cef79c7eecdd1552a16a5064f32604ba1f9
Author: Francois Marier <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jul 13 17:58:32 2011 +1200

externalfeed: use an empty user agent (bug #807341)

    There seems to be some kind of weird caching problems when using
    feedburner feeds which I suspect might be related to how Feedburner
    looks at the user agent of the client and returns different data
    depending on the user agent.

Sending an empty user agent seems to work around these problems.

Change-Id: Iaa513d33bdae31f816b5c5046ed59deaf3b40b01
Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <email address hidden>

François Marier (fmarier) on 2011-08-29