Comments on: Writing RSS 1-2-3

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Alan, this is awesome. I was kinda hoping you’d pick up on this. And I totally appreciate the way in which you offer a lesson in how to do this alongside the actual solution which is absolutely admirable.

So, shall we tag team around the net causing RSS feeds to pop-up in our trail

Cheers, Scott.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yes Scott, let’s spread them far and wide before the Viagra spammers hijack the boat.

By: 100luz

100luz — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just what I was looking for. Thanks for the tutorial but then I’ve found something puzzling. My .rss (located at http://100luz.com.ar/100LUZNews.rss ) does not show on the browser window (though it works perfectly on my news aggregator), just like the one you linked: http://tc.unl.edu/cansorge/lta/lta.rss though every other rss i’ve found displays the code on the browser window.

Is that ok? Anyways, thank you for the tutorial.

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I was able to view your feed in my browser quite fine (I have emailed you directly s screen shot).

The display of RSS code in the browser is subject to the version and settings of your web browser and the method by which your web server is set to send RSS files.

If it is appearing in your aggregator, you are likely okay, but the ultimate test for every feed you create is to validate it:

http://feeds.archive.org/validator/

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Al,

I am a technicaly challenged river rat who built and operates a web site, which I built with FrontPage. It gets pretty good traffic.

I also publish an e-mail newsletter in text format that has about 8,000 subscribers. I also paste it into our website, where it sits as an html file.

Your RSS Feed post is just about down to my level. But a few days ago I did just about what you described and all worked fine until I tried to save my file as something like http://www.californiadelta.org/halsfeed1.xml

FrontPage would have nothing to do with it. Would using the xml instead of rss cause the problem? (I don’t think so.) I have not been able to find a word on this subject via a Google search. Maybe FrontPage folks are not interested in RSS Feeds. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Hal

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hal,

I cannot help much with FrontPage- I have never used it. It is hard to make suggestions because I am not sure what you did, but there is no reason for FrontPage to be used at all in the process. I am guessing FrontPage is used to also move the files to your web server, but that is likely a bad idea.

I cannot look at the feed for the URL you gave because it does not exist

Your first version of the feed should be created at:

http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/perl/rssedit.pl

You should save this file from your web browser as what ever you want to call it (feed.rss or feed.xml is fine). You then should move this to your web server via an FTP tool (do not use FrontPage, get something like CuteFTP) and the easist place to save it is the root level of your web server. It would be something like

http://my.webserver.com/feed.xml

Test it using the Feed Validator:

http://feedvalidator.org/

For any update to it, return to the WebReference tool, and enter the URL for your feed (http://my.webserver.com/feed.xml) which will then load the current feed content into the form.

Then repeat the steps.

By: EdTechPost

EdTechPost — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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By: Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students

Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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