/feeds is working, but wp-rss2.php is not

New news. With no expectations, I updated to 2.0.2 and my Sage (Firefox) reader stopped seeing the RSS2 feed. However, a friend of mine tells me that his GreatNews reader has been able to read the feed since before I did the upgrade. Are we looking at a content-specific bug here? Are some of the reserved XML/RSS characters not being properly trapped? (It doesn’t explain why I can’t see anything other than the header, but that might be my reader too…)

Wait! My RSS reader (Sage) has started working again… And it seems to be because I added ‘?xxx’ to the end of wp-rss2.php in the feed properties. I think it’s a (bizarre) cacheing problem. There’s no other explanation for it. (Is there?)

Well, I think I’ve found out what it is, and (doh) it’s fairly obvious. I’ve got the Category Access plug-in installed and, of course, the feed can’t tell which categories it’s allowed to serve unless you’re logged in. With CA turned off, the feed works fine. Turn it back on and it chokes. (There is also confusion caused by cacheing somewhere up the chain, but I don’t think that’s anything to do with the root cause.)
Problem understood, if not solved.

FWIW, this appears to have been documented and fixed for version 2.1. I guess us “lowly” 2.0 users will have to wait for the fix.

Here’s the brief discussion in Trac: https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/3214.

I’ve backported the patch for 2.0.8.

It’s available on trac for you to test out if you wish.

Westi

with regards to my page https://www.setmusicfree.info

can you direct me to come help – I originally set the permalinks up %category% as the first variable. RSS was nto working. I went back to default and RSS still does nto work – the link just goes to a blank page. I am a *novice* at this. I have similar code which works successfully for a client at lowfeefofummortgage.com.

I am lost.

thanks