RSS feed works offline but not online

  • Resolved Klaus Wilde

    (@klwild)


    2 months, 1 week ago

    Hello everyone.

    I use DITTY with the RSS feed version and am very happy with it. There is now a problem that you would like to solve. It concerns the website: https://mecker-ecke.com

    When I call up the feed: https://www.nius.de/rss in my local instance, the RSS feed works perfectly. The WordPress installation is installed on WP-Local.

    If I want to use the feed online, an error message appears saying that the RSS file is faulty and cannot be loaded.

    I would like to have the problem solved. Thank you.

    Regards, Klaus Wilde

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    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author metaphorcreations

    (@metaphorcreations)

    Klaus, thanks for reaching out, I am seeing the same thing you are seeing, but don’t have . I have tested a few things to provide some insight:

    1. If you add the RSS feed to the basic WordPress RSS block/widget on your remote site, you’ll get the same error. Ditty RSS uses the same RSS reader that WordPress does, so this is not a Ditty specific issue.
    2. If you run the RSS feed through a validator you’ll see that it does not validate: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nius.de%2Frss

    I ran a bunch of tests and tried access the feed url directly using cURL and still get a 403 ERROR. It looks like the request is being blocked by Amazon CloudFront, which is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) used by https://www.nius.de. The 403 error specifically indicates that the request is being denied, likely due to security policies configured on CloudFront.

    I’ll do a bit more research on this, but you may need to reach out to the source site and see if they can provide any advice/insight on getting access to the feed on a remote site.

    Thread Starter Klaus Wilde

    (@klwild)

    Thank you for your investigation. I wrote a eMail to NIUS with the validation report to solve the problem.

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