This RSS feed is not right, I think.

[Pride Of Lions]

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/dougs.rss

I get a file that looks like the HTML page instead of a nice RSS feed. Should I let the developer know that he needs to get it together, or am I missing something in the iSiloX process?
POL9A

[Voltage Spike]

I get a file that looks like the HTML page instead of a nice RSS feed.

That is because the server is saying that it is HTML:

Content-Type: text/html

I would recommend that you email the administrator of that feed and kindly request that he fix his broken server. :)

PS: It should read "text/xml" although I believe iSilo will also accept "application/rss+xml" as of 4.25.

[Pride Of Lions]

I e-mailed the admin. and he asked what feed reader I was using and I told him iSilo, but that spurred me to check the feed with my "old" feed reader NewsMac. I did and NewsMac read the feed just fine. I'm wondering if iSiloX is seeing something (or not seeing something) that the other feed readers are and it's unable to convert the site like others can.

Your thoughts, as always, are much appreciated.
POL9A

[Voltage Spike]

I did and NewsMac read the feed just fine.

NewsMac, from what I can tell, is only an RSS reader. This means that it probably assumes every URL you give it is an RSS feed and treats it as such.

iSiloX, on the other hand, is a little more general and cannot make such assumptions. The server is in the wrong in this case, and the solutions I can see are:


Fix the server
Download the feed manually, give it a .rss extension, and convert the local file. (I don't know if this will work, but it does eliminate the improper Content-Type from the picture.)
Change iSiloX to support the overriding of the Content-Type header. (This is a very bad path since it will probably result in more errors than it corrects.)