[jira] Closed: (INFRA-961) feeds do not escape characters, thus fail validation, thus subscription impossible

["Paul Querna (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-961?page=all ]

Paul Querna closed INFRA-961.
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    Resolution: Invalid

This isn't an inssue for the infrastructure team, please talk to the mod_mbox developers on dev@httpd or the httpd bugzilla about it.

Thanks

> feeds do not escape characters, thus fail validation, thus subscription impossible
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>
>                 Key: INFRA-961
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-961
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: Mail Archives
>         Environment: Windows XP, different feed readers
>            Reporter: Georg
>            Priority: Critical
>
> A lot of feed readers check a feed for validity when subscribing / updating. Some refuse to do anything with an invalid feed, others try to be fault tolerant but fail, some succeed, depending on the error. One cannot use the feed until the invalid parts are too old, which means several days to weeks the feeds are not usable.
> For instance, http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-servicemix-users/?format=atom contains as of 2006-09-26 some 55 errors  and 40 warnings, mainly related to illegal/bad characters and incorrect URN formatting. Several errors have their origin in source code posted in the list and user names.
> Please escape problematic characters and make the software produce correct URNs -- that shall make the feeds usable for most feed readers :-)

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