From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11126 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: rss is failing with some feeds Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:26:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213572436 18609 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 23:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:27:16 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 16 01:27:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K81de-0004Wu-Pe for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K81cq-0001Ei-H6 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K81co-0001Ec-QX for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K81cm-0001Dl-CK for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42988 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K81cm-0001Df-3K for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:40970 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K81cl-0001O0-MB for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K81cb-00085K-LY for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:26:53 +0000 Original-Received: from kafka.physik3.gwdg.de ([134.76.92.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:26:53 +0000 Original-Received: from de_bb by kafka.physik3.gwdg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:26:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kafka.physik3.gwdg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ybqqK1DCNBBVK2a9Od1KBEn2s3I= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11126 Archived-At: rahed writes: > I cannot fetch some rss feeds. For instance I get: > > nnrss: Failed to fetch http://planet.perl.org/rss20.xml > XML-RPC is not available... not checking Syndic8. > gnus-group-make-rss-group: No feeds found for http://planet.perl.org/rss20.xml > > I set mm-url-use-external to t and have mm-url-program to wget. > The same when mm-url-use-external is nil. It doesn't work because this is actually a Feedburner feed, which is giving you Atom instead of RSS. The URL might tell you something different, but whoever set up this feed obviously chose to use Feedburner's "SmartFeed (TM)", which again uses a terribly intelligent mechanism to determine if your reader supports Atom or not. You see how well this works. Try using (setq mm-url-use-external t) (setq mm-url-program "lynx") (setq mm-url-arguments '("-source" "-useragent" "Drupal")) -David