Bug 186946

Summary:	hacker news feed cannot be loaded
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Peter Sabaini <peter>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	christophe, dingaopaicandu, haakon+kdebugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	network dump network dump

Description Peter Sabaini 2009-03-12 11:47:30 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Feed http://news.ycombinator.com/rss cannot be loaded, though it displays fine in Firefox.\

I get "file retriever error: 124" on stderr, and Wireshark tells me:

 -- snip --

GET /rss HTTP/1.1
Host: news.ycombinator.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Akregator/1.4.0; syndication
Accept: text/html, image/jpeg, image/png, text/*, image/*, */*
Accept-Encoding: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: utf-8, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-US, en

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close

 -- snip --

Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2009-03-12 11:56:15 UTC

I don't see any trouble with this feed. I received 24 articles after adding it.

Comment 2 Peter Sabaini 2009-03-12 13:37:59 UTC

Created attachment 32048 [details]
network dump

Comment 3 Peter Sabaini 2009-03-12 13:38:31 UTC

I can reproduce this quite consistently. Interestingly, Konqueror also has trouble opening this URL, and tells me "Connection to Server Closed Unexpectedly" 

I'm attaching the network dump.

Comment 4 Peter Sabaini 2009-03-12 13:39:03 UTC

Created attachment 32049 [details]
network dump

Comment 5 Haakon Nilsen 2009-03-23 22:09:04 UTC

I can not reproduce this in Akregator in 4.2.1 or trunk. It works as well as any other feed. I can, however, reproduce what Peter Sabaini says about Konqueror.

The feed file is unusually compressed and has no <?xml /> header, and after a few fetches I get "Connection refused" for a while. The server sets Content-type: text/html, which may confuse things. Also see http://is.gd/oBQV for RSS validation result.

Comment 6 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 19:38:43 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of akregator (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 7 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:51:06 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.