Feed Informer: Forums » Topic: Feed glitch/db corruption?

admin on "Feed glitch/db corruption?"

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:16:02 +0000

Actually, make that /feed in that example. Feed Digest's blog feed is at http://www.feeddigest.com/feed.

admin on "Feed glitch/db corruption?"

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:14:57 +0000

I think I've seen something similar to that before, but I don't believe I got to the bottom of it then either. In theory nothing should conflict between the blog, forum, or the main digest system in terms of databases, etc, as they're all quite separate.

However, one theory I have is that in certain broken cases, broken feeds URLs are doing redirections to new URLs, but only using relative URLs, such as /rss rather than example.com/rss .. and perhaps at some stage that is causing our proxy to fetch the RSS feed from the default site, Feed Digest, rather than the remote site. That's only a hunch at the moment though, as it's a hard issue to replicate, since I have only seen it, and can only imagine it existing on, feeds which are dead or dying.

kopicbloodaxe on "Feed glitch/db corruption?"

kopicbloodaxe — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:16:11 +0000

No sure what happened, but this morning I saw about half a dozen items added to my digest that all linked to FeedDigest blog postings but purported to have been fed by one of the feeds in my digest, i.e. source claimed to be something else. I don't include FeedDigest blog entries in my digest at all.

I checked up on the real original feed and found that it hadn't been updated for 18 months so decided to remove it from my digest anyway and now everything appears to be as it should be.

Do you think this was database corruption or some other problem?

Digest - TM0QT2VMK9
Feed in question - http://lost.libsyn.com/rss

Thanks and regards,
--Simon.