Cannot add feed with single quote [Solved]

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Cannot add feed with single quote [Solved]

Post by Guest »

I am also getting this when trying to add a MarketWatch feed.

I tried removing and reinstalling the xFeed App, got the same results.

Checked all the included feeds and it does not appear to be there to me.

http://www.marketwatch.com/rss/newsfind ... ist=sr_rss

I take out the http: as you program has it by default.

Please help!

+anthony
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Re: Error message that feed exists but can't find it

Post by Kevin »

Anthony,
It took a second to see what the problem was with this feed. What you did find was a bug. Unfortunately in this version (1.1.1) the "feed exists" message is a catch all error message when there is an problem adding a feed. This will be changed in the next version.

Your particular problem occurs when you are adding a feed with a single quote (') in the url as in "Dvorak's%20Second%20Opinion." This also will be fixed in the next version, however, for the time being you will be able to add this feed by replacing the single quotes with %27.

ie:
marketwatch.com/rss/newsfinder/AllMarketWatchNews/?p=column&pv=John%20Dvorak%27s%20Second%20Opinion&t=John%20Dvorak%27s%20Second%20Opinion&dist=sr_rss

A thousand apologies for this error and a thousand more thank you's for taking the time to post this problem here!
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Re: Cannot add feed with single quote [Solved]

Post by Kevin »

This bug has been solved in xFeed 2.0.

Thank you for your input!
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