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Opened 15 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#18505 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

http 404 sent for the RSS feed when there are no posts - should be 200

Reported by: mark-k Owned by: SergeyBiryukov
Priority: normal Milestone: 4.0
Component: Feeds Version: 3.2.1
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch commit
Cc: Focuses:

Description

for sites with no posts, the HTTP status code returned for the RSS feed is 404, but since the address was a valid address and it just happens that the content is empty, a 200 status should be sent.

(It annoys link checkers which then report that there are broken link at the site because by default for most themes there is a link to the RSS feed in the header)

Attachments (2)

18505.patch​ (772 bytes ) - added by SergeyBiryukov 15 years ago.
18505.2.patch​ (413 bytes ) - added by SergeyBiryukov 12 years ago.

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Change History (8)

#1 @johnbillion
15 years ago

Related: #17316 and its subsequent changeset at [18192].

I wonder if including is_feed() in that conditional block will fix this issue?

@SergeyBiryukov
15 years ago

#2 @SergeyBiryukov
15 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

#27146 was marked as a duplicate.

#4 @SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

#28508 was marked as a duplicate.

@SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

#5 @SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

  • Keywords commit added
  • Milestone Awaiting Review → 4.0

#6 @SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

  • Owner set to SergeyBiryukov
  • Resolution → fixed
  • Status new → closed

In 29216:

Don't 404 for empty feeds.

fixes #18505.

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