Bug 10909 - (int-179847) Failed feed parse deletes previous (successful) parse contents
(int-179847)
: Failed feed parse deletes previous (successful) parse contents
Status: NEW
Product: RSS feed reader
General
: 5.0:(10.2010.19-1)
: All Maemo
: Unspecified normal (vote)
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Assigned To: unassigned
: rss-feed-reader-bugs
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Reported: 2010-07-11 16:49 UTC by Attila Csipa
Modified: 2010-07-15 14:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Example of feed content that causes the reader to invalidate the feed. (136.57 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-07-11 16:52 UTC, Attila Csipa
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Description Attila Csipa (reporter) nokia 2010-07-11 16:49:32 UTC
SOFTWARE VERSION:
10.2010.19-1

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
1. Open RSS reader
2. Have a readable feed entered (for example
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NokiaConversations-Posts)
3. Click refresh feed

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
Refresh feed, or do nothing if it fails.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
Fails to refresh feed, and also deletes the previous contents of the feed.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
Depends of feed content. It might be due to parsing errors or malformed feed
content.

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:

OTHER COMMENTS:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.19)
Gecko/2010040121 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.19
Comment 1 Attila Csipa (reporter) nokia 2010-07-11 16:52:41 UTC
Created an attachment (id=2968) [details]
Example of feed content that causes the reader to invalidate the feed.

Obviously, the best solution would be if a borked characted or element wouldn't
break the WHOLE feed (the loss of previous content is in fact just the
side-effect of this).
Comment 2 Bartosz Taudul 2010-07-15 14:09:15 UTC
Confirming.