xmlParse : Content is not allowed in prolog.

[ColdNovice]

Can anyone let me know the issue with the code while executing on ColdFusion 8 developer edition.

<cfhttp url=" http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech/" method="get">
<cfset objRSS = xmlParse(Trim(cfhttp.filecontent))>
<CFDUMP var="#objRSS#">

It is giing me error: Content is not allowed in prolog.

[Newsgroup_User]

Your code worked just fine for me.

Put <cfoutput>#cfhttp.fileContent#</cfoutput> before the cfset line.

Yahoo often has throttles and limiters on their services like this. If
you exceed these thresholds you do not get the expected xml object but
instead you just get some type of error message.

[ColdNovice]

<cfhttp url=" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/1081479906.cms" method="get">
<cfoutput>#cfhttp.fileContent#</cfoutput>
<cfset objRSS = xmlParse(Trim(cfhttp.filecontent))>

Now it is giving "Connection Failure", I tried with few RSS feeds but it gives the same error.

coldfusion.xml.XmlProcessException: An error occured while Parsing an XML document.
at coldfusion.xml.XmlProcessor.parse(XmlProcessor.java:183)
at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.XmlParse(CFPage.java:211)
at cftext2ecfm1120545296.runPage(D:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\text.cfm:3)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:196)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:370)

[Newsgroup_User]

ColdNovice wrote:
> Now it is giving "Connection Failure", I tried with few RSS feeds but it gives
> the same error.

Then I would say that is your problem. This code works perfectly on
*my* CF 8 developer server. I would suggest that for some reason your
server can not connect to these resources. Firewall? Proxy? Corporate
Policy?