[Connotea-code-devel] RSS feeds?

[Hilary S. <hil...@st...>]

Hi,

I'm having problems with the RSS feeds in the open source code.  First, 
I noticed that some tags were malformed/empty "<:>".  I fixed this by 
commenting out a line in DBI.pm, although I'm not sure what was causing 
the problem in the first place.

Now, the only problem seems to be that the resulting file is not 
recognized/displayed as an RSS file by Firefox (2.0), so I can't use the 
live bookmarks feature.  This is not a problem on the main Connotea 
site, so I'm hoping someone will be able to help me fix it.

Here's a image of the problem:
  http://cirge.stanford.edu/connoteafiles/rss.html

The top image is what I see when I click the "RSS" link at the top of a 
list of bookmarks. The bottom image is what I should see.  Oddly enough, 
if I use curl to create a local copy of the rss feed (curl -o test.rss 
http://cirge.stanford.edu/bibliotech/rss/user/hilary/tag/aCGH) generated 
by connotea, it is recognized by Firefox to be an rss feed.  This has 
nothing to do with the file extension since "curl -o test http..." also 
generates a recognized rss feed.

I am using Apache's mod_mime (with the default configurations) although 
I don't think this should have any effect.  From my research, I think 
that Firefox guesses if a file is an RSS file or an HTML file by looking 
at the first couple of lines.  If the file begins with <? ?>followed by 
<rdf:RDF> or <rss>, then Firefox should treat the file as an RSS file.  
However, the content of both the file at 
http://cirge.stanford.edu/bibliotech/rss/user/hilary/tag/aCGH and the 
copied file generated by curl are identical.  So theoretically, Firefox 
should interpret them the same way, but doesn't.  I'm confused.

The only difference I can find is that the file header for the 
(correctly recognized) RSS feed says the file type is 
"application/xhtml+xml", while the file header for the unrecognized RSS 
feed says the file type is "application/xml".  Changing this in Const.pm 
so that the RSS feeds have "application/xhtml+xml" as the file type  
doesn't seem to make a difference.

Anyone else having this problem?  Any thoughts?

Please ask if any of the above is not clear.

Thanks so much,
Hilary