[SOLVED] RSS feed shows up randomly as text (noone was able to help me in othe forum)

[2levelsabove]

Hello,

 

I have a RSS feed (http://alltherides.com/feed.xml) that appears fine in certain instances and when you refresh page it randomly starts showing up as plain text without any formatting.

 

Please please help me fix this as I have asked this question before noone was able to help me.

 

Thanks a lot and happy holidays

[JasonLewis]

Uh not sure, tried a different method of encoding?

[chronister]

Check this out, I would start with this and go from there.

 

http://feedvalidator.org/

Recommendations

 

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

 

    *Feeds should not be served with the "text/html" media type [help]

 

 

    * Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "ISO-8859-1" [help]

 

 

    * line 24, column 50: description contains bad characters (1710 occurrences) [help]

 

              <description><![CDATA[Trax Auto Wholesale Inc   2005 Ford Escape Limite ...

 

That's what I get when I run your xml file through it.

 

It may be a valid feed, but since it is not working all the time I would bring it to a completely valid, proper feed and see if that works for ya... if it does, then start adding the other things and see where it breaks.

 

I got it to be recognized as an rss feed once... then about 5 times as plain xml code.

 

Nate

[chronister]

Remove encoding="UTF-8" and it will work. I copied your source, and removed the encoding type and it now shows up as an rss feed every time.

 

 

Nate

[JasonLewis]

Or giving it the correct encoding which, as stated, would be ISO-8859-1.

[2levelsabove]

Guys thank you all for your feedback.

 

I removed the encoding="UTF-8" and it seems to be working fine.

 

Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. This was a thorn in my ass for a while.