Re: [Magpierss-general] Odd MagpieRSS Behaviour

[Russ J. <rus...@gm...>]

I defined MAGPIE_USER_AGENT to a value that included the date and time.

On 11/28/05, Stephen Paul Weber <sin...@gm...> wrote:
> How did you do that?  I would really like to get this working, it is bugg=
ing
> my users to no end...
>
>
> At 28/11/2005 07:14 PM, Russ Johnston wrote:
> I had a similar problem. I found that the problem was not with
> Magpie's cache, but with the cache on the server from which I
> retrieved the feed. If I remember right, it was Typepad's server that
> gave me a problem. What I ended up doing was trying to convince the
> server that I was someone new each time I requested the feed.
>
> Russ
>
> On 11/25/05, Stephen Paul Weber <sin...@gm...> wrote:
> > This is an error report that breaks some conventions because of the
> > nature of the problem... I cannot really give steps to reproduce the
> > error because it is unpredictable...  but I will try to describe it
> > as best I can.
> >
> > I am running a 'personal homepage' opensource project at
> > http://boxtheweb.4x2.net/ that uses MagpieRSS for
> > feedboxes.  Normally it works as expected... but sometimes a feed
> > will fail to update, or will update and will then 'lose' the newest
> > items.  What this means is that (according to the debug messages that
> > I have turned ON) Magpie seems to be touching the cache for feeds
> > beyond MAX_AGE and thus changing the time stored and the cache
> > continues being used after it should be STALE.  I know it is a cache
> > problem because if I delete a specific file from the cache for a feed
> > not updating, that feed then updates fine.  However sometimes I will
> > delete ALL items from the cache and on page refresh some of the feeds
> > are still not updated?  And sometimes, and this is the really weird
> > part, a feed WILL update, and have the newest headlines, but then
> > later it will revert to an older version... I have done everything
> > short of writing my own cachefile, I have even edited rss_cache.inc
> > to store a timestamp (from time() ) in the cache file and to pull
> > that back in when checking the cache instead of using the file's
> > modified time.  I am using MagpieRSS 0.61.
> >
> > Some feeds that have exhibited this behavior in the past (but may or
> > may not be doing so now) :
> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch
> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/Freshblog/
> > http://www.notraces.com/index.xml
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any help anyone can give on this very
> > annoying problem,
> >    Stephen Paul Weber (Singpolyma)
> >
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