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#13 2008-04-27 17:32:25

ruud

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Re: RSS Feed broken

Three questions:
Can you give a link to that RSS feed? Perhaps it’s not a BOM but something else.
Is the website hosted on a windows server or Linux/*NIX server?
If Linux/*NIX, do you have shell access?

#14 2008-04-27 17:36:05

FireFusion

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Re: RSS Feed broken

Answers in your email

#15 2008-04-27 18:53:04

ruud

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Re: RSS Feed broken

Problem found.
When I request your RSS feed and set my browser to accept only non-compressed pages, it displays fine.
However, when my browser accepts gzip-compressed pages, something very very strange happens. The page is compressed twice instead of just once. Similar to when you ZIP a file and than put the resulting ZIP file into another ZIP archive. When you uncompress it once, you still have a compressed file.

TXP can compress feeds, but so can PHP and the Apache webserver. I suspect the latter two both are compressing the RSS feed. Try disabling gzip compression in PHP by setting this in php.ini (if zlib.output_compression is already listed and set to On, simply change it to Off):

zlib.output_compression = Off

And if that doesn’t work, try this:

zlib.output_compression = 0

Last edited by ruud (2008-04-27 18:56:51)

#16 2008-04-27 19:14:38

FireFusion

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Re: RSS Feed broken

Hi Rudd,

extension=zlib.so was uncommented but I re-commented it. Do I need to do anything to get it to reload the php.ini file? I’m editing through virtualmin.

Doesn’t matter it works now!

Thank you!!!

Last edited by FireFusion (2008-04-27 19:21:20)

#17 2008-04-27 20:24:46

ruud

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Re: RSS Feed broken

Hmm… disabling zlib completely will also make it impossible to use compressed plugins (among other things). Perhaps a better solution would be to either comment out the ob_gzhandler lines in rss.php and atom.php or in the apache server disable compression of RSS/Atom feeds (in the mod_deflate configuration).

#18 2008-04-27 21:30:43

FireFusion

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Re: RSS Feed broken

Commenting out extension=zlib.so was the only thing that worked as zlib.output_compression was off.

I’ll see if I can disable compression of RSS/Atom through apache.

Thanks again