Re: [Fofredux-devel] Attempting to add this feed caused an error

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

> On 6/29/06, Andrew Turner <ajt...@hi...> wrote:
>>
>> That's what I figured was going on - but didn't get a chance to see
>> the code to verify.
>>
>> Hrm - not too often that one will have url's *that* long, so don't
>> want to make the URL a "text" field. Perhaps make a tinyurl
>> (http://tinyurl.com/) of the feed?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
> Heh, that's a good idea but it did not work. I tried to add the tinyurl=
 as
> a
> feed and got a bunch of errors back. I presume since the actual url is =
not
> the rss feed. But a redirection of the original url.

I think the problem is that feed is riddled with really long URLs.  It is
in the feed link tag and also the item link tags.

To support this feed we would have to convert feed.url, feed.link and
item.link database columns to the TEXT data type.

* Do we want to?
* What's the downside?

--=20
Kevin