How to fix a problem using an external.php feed.

I use a couple of aggregators for my feeds - Mambo which uses domit and another using magpie.

I pull the rss feeds from a number of vBulletin forums using external.php and only one gives me problems.

I can see it using a browser but I can't pick it up from a script. I know the owners have recently made some changes but that hasn't helped.

To the best of my vB knowledge there are no gotchas in external.php, it doesn't validate the user or make any checks, it just serves up the data.

Is it possible the feed is getting caught up in some hotlinking script or could there be something else at play?

thanks

Sarah

Maybe your server was blocked from that domain? Can you do a WGET or something from the webserver too see the HTTP response? I'm guessing here.

Headers show up ok, but just done some debugging and it appears that it is getting the script (phew) but objecting to some of the characters in it.

That's wierd because I imagine it's using the standard vB script and I would have thought they'd have covered off all that stuff. Maybe when the site owners put some effort into the forum and upgrade it to 3.5 it'll come right, right now it's running on auto-pilot :)

How are you making the call to the url? And could this be a UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 thing?

It could well be. I'll check up on that.

In mambo I'm just using the standard get RSS module which is domit (http://www.engageinteractive.com/mambo/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3606&Itemid=10137)
On my other site I'm using vanilla magpie (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net)

There's probably a setting in vBulletin options which is making the rss feed not quite right. I'll look through my vB sites to see if I can work out what that might and hassle the webmaster to check them on his too

thanks for the help Noppid!

You're welcome. Always nice too hear from ya.