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Anonymous
April 14, 2011
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Unable to read the source URL error for cffeed

  • April 14, 2011
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Hi,

I am using the cffeed to read from my twitter RSS feed but I get this error:

Unable to read the source URL.

Status Code: 400. Try adding or changing UserAgent attribute in the CFFeed tag

My code is:

<cfset feedurl="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/somenumbers.atom" />

<cffeed 
source="#feedurl#"
properties="feedmeta"     
query="feeditems1" overwrite="true" />

It works but suddenly it stops and it takes time about 15 minutes or more  to work again.

Can any body help me with this?

Thanks,

Mandana

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2011

    Did you try what the error message suggested?

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    Adam

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    Anonymous
    April 15, 2011

    I tried this one which is useragent attribute:

    <cffeed 
        source="#feedurl#"
        properties="feedmeta"
        query="feeditems1" overwrite="true"
        useragent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; AskTbBLPV5/5.11.3.15590)" />

    I found the user agent by this : cfdump #cgi.http_user_agent# and copy/paste it in useragent attribute but still does not work.

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    April 17, 2011

    I'm not sure what to suggest.  It might be something coming through the feed which CF doesn't like.  Modify your code with a try/catch and if it errors, do a CFHTTP on the URL instead, and have a look @ what it's returning: see if there's anything that CFFEED wouldn't like (like malformed XML).

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    Adam

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