NetNewsWire: Feed not found if no `` start tag is present

NetNewsWire doesn’t appear to find feeds if there’s no <head> start tag:

The failure case is valid HTML, however, and therefore it would be useful if NetNewsWire would not rely on <head> to locate feeds.

(Thanks @danburzo for alerting me about this.)

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
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  • Comments: 22 (4 by maintainers)

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@ottumm Works if adding to NetNewsWire directly instead of using a Feedly account in NetNewsWire.

Our error reporting could make it clear that it’s a Feedly issue. We should also report the bug to Feedly.

You can migrate a little at a time. You can add iCloud (or whatever account type) and keep using Feedly for as long as you want to.

I misdiagnosed earlier — the actual feed URL is https://blueskiesdaily.com/feed/

@pketh Is there any chance you’re trying to add this to a Feedly account in NetNewsWire? We’ve seen a Feedly bug where that doesn’t always work. If not, what kind of account are you using?

https://blueskiesdaily.com/feed.xml redirects to http://blueskiesdaily.com/feed.xml — which redirects to https://blueskiesdaily.com/feed.xml — it’s a redirect loop. Server error.

We’re bailing early on the failure page because we explicitly check for a <body> in isProbablyHTML. Even without that, I don’t think we search past <head>, so it looks like there are at least two places to fix.