FeedValidator seems to not mind it: 
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnwshp%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwn%26q%3D%26output%3Drss

Does you programs work with other feeds? is the url wrong maybe?

On 8/21/05, Kent Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>  Hmm maybe you are right. But in a browser you don't
> need to be logged in to read the feed.
> 
> I know for a fact that if I login in using the google
> api it will work, but it seems a bit overboard and
> unneccesarily secure. In my experience Google is
> always afraid of scrapers and zealously blocks clients
> it can't recognise, and now they have gone and made an
> implementation unfriendly to news aggregetors. Maybe I
> am way off base, but I would have a hard time
> understanding how a news aggregator could read these
> feeds unless a) they access with the google api or b)
> they masqueraded the client as mozilla, firefox,
> opera, or ie, c) set up some sort of logged in
> connection. 
> 
> --- Joseph Becher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 403... Are you sure you don't need to login into
> > your google account to view 
> > the feed?
> > 
> > On 8/21/05, Kent Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > that's my problem I am not using a browser, I am
> > using
> > > a program that I wrote, and I am wondering if any
> > > other news aggregetor programs will also have
> > problems
> > > reading those feeds.
> > > 
> > > --- Tara Calishain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > At 08:20 AM 8/21/2005, you wrote:
> > > > >After all the fanfare that Google would start
> > to
> > > > use
> > > > >feeds for google news, it seems that unless you
> > > > mask
> > > > >your client as mozilla or ie (or another
> > approved
> > > > >client), you can't access them. I keep getting
> > > > >HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
> > > > >
> > > > >I wonder if they have a list of approvated
> > > > aggregators
> > > > >or something. google only says "Important: you
> > > > must
> > > > >use a feed reader in order to subscribe to
> > website
> > > > >feeds."
> > > > >
> > > > >does anyone know more about this?
> > > > 
> > > > Um, what browser are you using? I use Opera and
> > have
> > > > had no trouble...
> > > > 
> > > > Tara
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
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