I am sorry to hear this. I apologize for the typos in the book (that is indeed my fault) but there is nothing wrong with the RSS feed as generated by web2py. And using Django would not make any difference. In fact I think the problem is discussed here in the chrome mailing list
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LfDx3j4uYXw Looks like the problem is that Chrome does not come out of the box with an RSS reader. Try it for example with yahoo rss news: http://news.yahoo.com/rss/ IE and FF works, Chromes does not. This is intentional. Google wants you to use Google Reader for RSS feeds, not the browser. massimo On Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:11:39 UTC-5, Jarrod Wilcox wrote: > > Massimo > > Chrome does not serve an RSS page given the manual's example controller > logic in the overview chapter, even after the manual's "repond" is > corrected to "respond". This is an old error first reported last fall by > someone else. > > This is not a big deal. I still am working through the manual. However, > in the face of advice from others to use Django, my confidence as a new > web2py user was a bit shaken. > > Jarrod > > On Saturday, May 26, 2012 1:11:31 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > >> what's the error? >> >> On Friday, 25 May 2012 21:05:06 UTC-5, Jarrod Wilcox wrote: >>> >>> I verified that the problem does not occur for IE, Safari and Firefox, >>> but does occur with Chrome. >>> Jarrod >>> >>> On Friday, May 25, 2012 1:58:20 PM UTC-4, Jarrod Wilcox wrote: >>> >>>> The overview chapter adds an RSS facility to the mywiki example. The >>>> example code seems to contain typo errors: "form" instead of "from" and >>>> "reponse" instead of "response", but that may not be a serious issue. >>>> >>>> When these are "corrected", the result of serving >>>> mywiki/default/news.rss is a page of text rather than the picture shown in >>>> the manual. >>>> >>>> This appears: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >>>> <rss version="2.0"><channel><title>mywiki rss >>>> feed</title><link>http://127.0.0.1:8000/mywiki/default/index</link><description>mywiki >>>> news</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:41:48 >>>> GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Pig >>>> >>>> Latin</title><link>/mywiki/default/show.rss/1</link><description><p>Ancay >>>> ouyay eakspay igpay atinlay?</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May >>>> 2012 12:02:44 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss> >>>> >>>> >>>> My question is what do do to get the correct result. All code was cut >>>> and paste from the examples in the online version of the manual. >>>> >>>> Jarrod >>>> >>> >>> On Friday, May 25, 2012 1:58:20 PM UTC-4, Jarrod Wilcox wrote: >>>> >>>> The overview chapter adds an RSS facility to the mywiki example. The >>>> example code seems to contain typo errors: "form" instead of "from" and >>>> "reponse" instead of "response", but that may not be a serious issue. >>>> >>>> When these are "corrected", the result of serving >>>> mywiki/default/news.rss is a page of text rather than the picture shown in >>>> the manual. >>>> >>>> This appears: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >>>> <rss version="2.0"><channel><title>mywiki rss >>>> feed</title><link>http://127.0.0.1:8000/mywiki/default/index</link><description>mywiki >>>> news</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:41:48 >>>> GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Pig >>>> >>>> Latin</title><link>/mywiki/default/show.rss/1</link><description><p>Ancay >>>> ouyay eakspay igpay atinlay?</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May >>>> 2012 12:02:44 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss> >>>> >>>> >>>> My question is what do do to get the correct result. All code was cut >>>> and paste from the examples in the online version of the manual. >>>> >>>> Jarrod >>>> >>>
