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RSS feed XML Parsing Error: syntax error

AL a_creative_life
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Sep 13, 2012 · 9:53 pm · Edited

I’m getting the following error when clicking the button to sign up for the forum RSS feed:

XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://creativeignitionclub.com/forum/announcements/rss/79c0889d-3d4d-4389-90f4-eaa00d2634b6/
Line Number 1, Column 1:21a9
^

Yes, I’m running a membership plugin, WishList Member. Is there something I can do to get the RSS to work?

I’ve posted my site login info several times here, and each time I feel a little uncomfortable about it, since I really don’t want my admin login available to just anybody. If you want my login info, please let me know and I can PM it.

Thanks,

Melissa

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MP Mr Papa
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Sep 13, 2012 · 10:18 pm

well, your feed is starting with:

21a9

in the page header… so something is outputting that… the number (hex) does not mean anything to me from sp perspective… does it to you? maybe part of wishlist key? are you trying to have wishlist protect feeds too?? is wishlist or simple press protecting the forum page itself?

AL a_creative_life
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Sep 13, 2012 · 10:48 pm

well, your feed is starting with:

21a9

in the page header… so something is outputting that… the number (hex) does not mean anything to me from sp perspective… does it to you? maybe part of wishlist key?

No idea…

are you trying to have wishlist protect feeds too?? is wishlist or simple press protecting the forum page itself?

WishList is protecting the forum page. I don’t want anyone to be able to read the forums unless they’re a registered member.

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Sep 14, 2012 · 5:03 am

What Steve is saying is that something in your environment is inserting that hex string into the feed stream – quite probably more characters as well as the error message only shows the first 2 characters. In case you do not know – those two hex characters equate to ‘!?’ – an exclamation mark followed by a question mark.

A quick google search turned up nothing but that is hardly surprising!

So – any plugins that might be acting on RSS feeds? Any settings anywhere?

MP Mr Papa
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Sep 15, 2012 · 1:04 am

yes, if using wishlist to protect feeds, they add a key similar to what we do… wonder if that hex string is from your wishlist feed secret key…  would be on the wishlist – settings – miscellaneous panel…

AL a_creative_life
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Sep 15, 2012 · 3:44 pm

I checked the Wishlist > Settings > Miscellaneous panel, and there is an RSS Secret Key and an API Key, but neither contains 21a9 as part of their string.

???

I’m also posting to the WishList support forum to see if they have any ideas.

AL a_creative_life
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Sep 15, 2012 · 4:22 pm

fyi, I just tried to subscribe to the forum-wide RSS (which I activated in the Forum admin), and this time I got this error:

 

XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://creativeignitionclub.com/forum/rss/79c0889d-3d4d-4389-90f4-eaa00d2634b6/
Line Number 1, Column 1:2fed
^

I’m not sure if this helps or not.

MP Mr Papa
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Sep 15, 2012 · 5:15 pm

no, not really…  its says you are loading up the rss feed…

and if you look at the feed source, the very first thing on the page is the 21a9…  it should be a standard rss header which does follow on the next line…  but we need to figure out what is outputting the 21ad…

can you disable all other plugins and see if it starts working?  if so, enable one by until it breaks…