Feed validator is running from your browser (presumably), and your browser is saying hi I am so and so, and google is happy with that. There really is no question if it is valid, just who is allowed to read it.
but even weirder than that, I just discovered another bugbear related to this, a german provider izynews. There are probably about 10,000 entries in syndic8 for these guys. syndic8 seems to poll them perfectly and now when I use my program I get HTTP/1.1 404 Not found, which makes no sense, unless they are also not liking my client, ie they don't recognise me as a valid client, and sending me the wrong error message. I just don't understand this one at all. There seems to be a redirect mechanism, which I believe I am following. I would be very curious how the clever clogs at syndic8 are managing to read those feeds. I reckon cuz izzy provides a service they also block certain clients and that syndic8 is loggingin somehow, but this is wild speculation. --- Joseph Becher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? 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