New RSS items are dropped in wrong feeds

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No one else has ever reported this problem and it seems quite
unlikely that RSS Bandit would do this. Do you have any
examples of feeds that return wrong items or could you
provide us with your feed list either as OPML or in the RSS
Bandit format so we can try and reproduce the error?

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caranage4life said :

it seems quite unlikely that RSS Bandit would do this

But it does ! And quite often I should say.

I attached the XML Bandit formatted file to this bug.

Here (in thsi file) is an example of an article that was
dropped in the wrong feed. The feed is at
http://www.interactions-tpts.net/backend.php3 but among the
recently viewed stories in this feed, you can find
http://www.medito.com/article535.html that should not belong
to this feed since it comes from
http://www.medito.com/backend.php instead.

If ever it is useful, please note that I use Bandit on a
laptop. Most of the time, it sits behind my company's
firewall and HTTP proxies. But sometimes, my laptop wakes up
at my home and has a direct (well, NAT routed precisely)
access to the Internet. Bandit takes its proxy setup from
MSIE which is said to look at a special config file on my
company intranet (automated config script). It may be what
makes my case "special" ? But with other RSS aggregators
(feeddemon and the like), I never encountered this kind of
issue.

Thanks for your help if you can fix it !

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I had to cut some parts of the XML file so that it fits
SF.Net limits in terms of file size.

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I've had the same thing happen to me today. 64 feeds in 5
categories; roughly 300 feed items per day. Version 1.2.0.90
on WinXPSP1.

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I just installed the 1.2.0.106 (beta) release and I am still
seeing this problem. It does not seem to happen on a
regular basis, but once or twice a week, I wll get numerous
feed items showing up in a different feed.

If I delete the feed and then re-establish the feed, it
seems to work for a while.

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I am still encountering this problem on my Win2K box. I do
not see this issue on the version I have installed on a
WinXP machine. However, Win2K seems to be a common link in
this thread. Any chance you could test on a Win2K machine
to replicate?

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This issue occured to me just a couple of days ago on my
WinXP box. I'm using version 1.2.0.117.

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I am seeing this also on 1.2.0.117 on an Win 2000 laptop
behind an HTTP proxy server and a corporate firewall.

If I can figure out how to do it, I will upload an abridged
feedlist.xml that illustrates the problem.

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I have this issue also with .117 and Win 2K.

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I was looking at http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/Rss.aspx which is
an RSS 2.0 feed and suddenly I got an entry with the
title "(...)"

I closed RSS Bandit and looked at feedlist.xml and it had
<story>104155402</story> within the recently viewed items
for this feed.

I looked in the cache and found the following XML snippet.

<item>

<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:25:37 GMT</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">104155402</guid>
<link rel="service.edit" type="" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"/>
</item>

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I just tried out the Wolverine Preview 1.3.0.9 and this just
happened to me within 10 minutes on several Amazon rss feeds.
I reentered all my feeds/options manually so it isn't due to
any leftover settings from the older versions.

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I just tried out the Wolverine Preview 1.3.0.9 and this just
happened to me within 10 minutes on several Amazon rss
feeds.
I reentered all my feeds/options manually so it isn't due to
any leftover settings from the older versions (which also had
the same problem).
I'm on WinXP SP2.

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FWIW, I see similar, if not the same, behavior. In my
case, I will see a new item in multiple feeds, even though it
only should be in one of them. I am not seeing all of the
items from one feed popping up in another (i.e., RSS Bandit is
not going to the wrong URL for a given feed as far as I can
tell, it is just dropping the same item into multiple feeds
though it does not belong there). I will look into the problem
and submit a patch should I find a solution.

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Can you all please try this snapshot to verify if it still
happens:
http://rssbandit.sourceforge.net/builds/RssBandit.1.3.0.22.Wo
lverine.Beta2.zip

Thanks!

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I still see this issue with 1.3.0.23.

I am having a hard time reproducing the error, though, so
I'll keep using it until I find a more solid pattern.

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So to find the common things:
0.) It is not Bandit version specific, so maybe it is a
framework networking or XML processing issue.
1.) do you used Bandit behind a proxy?
2.) what kind of network you have (intranet, private DSL
router,...)
3.) Is there any "uncommon" software installed you ca think
of (e.g. MS AntispyWare seems to cause also some
problems)?
4.) If possible to track down: what RSS feeds causing the
errors (RSS 1.0 feeds, RSS2 .0 feeds or Atom feeds)?
5.) What OS and SP are installed?
6.) Is the OS running a special language other than english?

It seems Dare could repro the issue at his work computer but
think the used ISA (proxy) causing the problems...

So please help to get that annoying bug fixed asap.
Thanks to you all.

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OK, I've tested using 1.3.0.24 (CVS) at home the past week
or so, and this bug definitely does NOT occur from my home
workstation. It only occurs at my workplace. I assume that
nothing you changed from .23 to .24 can have caused this bug
to disappear (since I've only tested at work with .23).

So .. it does NOT occur with the following system:
ADSL 2 MBit
ZyXEL 650HW router
Windows XP SP2 (US)
Sygate Personal Firewall
Avast! Antivirus Home Edition

It DOES occur with the following system:
2 Mbit corporate Internet access
Cisco routing hardware
Novell BorderManager (anonymous proxy)
Windows 2000 SP4 (Danish)
Symantec Antivirus Client

How can I debug this problem further?

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Still seeing this with 1.3.0.25 CVS (Beta 3) and the
following configuration:

2 Mbit corporate Internet access
Cisco routing hardware
Novell BorderManager (anonymous proxy)
Windows 2000 SP4 (Danish)
Symantec Antivirus Client

Just FYI.

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This has also been a problem for me. I'm running 1.3.0.29 on
XPSP2. When it happens, it usually happens to several
feeds at the same time (6 in the most recent case). And it's
not simply trading contents between feeds, although at least
some of them contain the contents of each other's feeds.

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Some of the issues that caused this problem have been fixed
but a new variation of the problem has manifested itself. The
new variation has other bugs already filed making this one
redundant.