Feed Problem

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31 Jan

I transferred my feeds from feedburner.com to feedburner.google.com account. I don’t know why but the notice there says to move it by next month so I moved it. The previous link http://feeds.feedburner.com/mayvelous changed to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/mayvelous, but both should work, the first one redirects to the new link so it’s fine.

But a little problem; now I’m getting 50 old posts in my reader, all from Burmese blog. Feedburner link is my combined feed built with yahoo pipe so I don’t know why I’m getting lots of old post now. I checked the output from yahoo pipe and it shows both English and Myanmar posts in correct order but…those in current feedburner link are all Burmese. Just weird, may be the account still updating.

Anyways, hope this short post comes out well.
Alrite, testing 1, 2, 3.

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One Response for "Feed Problem"

Gabe February 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm 1
Your feed reader does not know how determine a unique post except by URL.

Most readers would be smart enough to use the URL of the original article, but some also use the URL of the RSS feed for reference.

It may also be the type of redirect your old feed has to the new one. If its a HTTP redirect, which is most likely it should be ok. Some HTTP Clients though will not follow more then 1 redirect. So if you have another HTTP redirect to the original source of the article, then your feed reader may not want to follow that far.

eg: If you had an RSS feed on for Google News. Then syndicated that feed from feedburner. Then when an RSS client views the feed on feedburner it find each article redirects first to google news, then google redirects to the original news article, or even to another syndication of the news article. Some RSS clients will give up along the way and just list the first or second URL.

Worst part is Google news randomly employs different redirect types, rotating between HTTP and Meta Refresh (HTML based redirect) – probably out of scope here.