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Command line RSS validation

curl -i -d "<rss><channel/></rss>" http://feeds.archive.org/validator/
curl -i -d "<rss/>" http://feeds.archive.org/validator/

The latter demonstrates a bug in the validator, which I will leave unfixed for the moment to demonstrate fault responses (complete with server side python stack traceback).  This can be put into a script on Unix/Windows thus:

curl -i -d "`cat $1`" http://feeds.archive.org/validator/
curl -i -d "@%1" http://feeds.archive.org/validator/

Thanks go out to Jeffrey Winter for this nugget.

Two sets of headers?

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:38:09 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_xslt/t1.2
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/xml

Status: 500 Internal Error
Content-type: text/xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

....

Posted by Rich Salz at

And don't forget:

curl -i -d @your-rss.xml http://feeds.archive.org/validator/

@: upload the given file name.

Posted by Jeffrey Winter at

Rich - oops! There comes a point in every application where you figure, nothing can go wrong after this point, and then wham, you realize that, yes, something can.

This failure was in applyTemplates, which is after the validation is complete...

Anyway, it is now fixed. Thanks!

Posted by Sam Ruby at

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