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Extension RSS fails to connect to feeds
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The extension is enabled (wmgUseRSSExtension, wmgRSSUrlWhitelist) for the following wikis and feeds in wikimedia farm:
(code

<rss max="6">feed url</rss>

is used for examples)

wikifeed urlstatusexample
uawikimediahttp://wikimediaukraine.wordpress.com/feed/not workingmy subpage
foundationwikihttp://blog.wikimedia.org/feed/workingTemplate:Blogbox
—""—http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/our-wikis/wikimediacommons/feed/workingmy subpage
—""—http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/picture-of-the-day/feed/workingmy subpage
mediawikiwikihttp://blog.wikimedia.org/feed/not workingmy subpage
—""—https://git.wikimedia.org/feed/mediawiki/extensions/Translate.gitworkingmy subpage
—""—https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/feeds/8z8k6vUfniLmWc2qGe6GMQsxBujvKRKuybLd8mdTbMFHwGfLH3oxK*MU0E8zM6go.atomnot workingmy subpage
—""—https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=PATCH_TO_REVIEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&f1=keywords&list_id=288958&o1=substring&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&title=Bug%20List&v1=hhvm&ctype=atomnot workingmy subpage

Well the case of the last URL is clear ­— bugzilla got moved to phab. As to the rest I can open them all in my browser and they indeed are feeds. Some now have https instead of http so I blamed it at first, but though it might be worth fixing it proved to be not the case as some are already written in https form and some of them are working and some are not. The most interesting is wmfblog — it works on WMF-wiki but does not work on MW-wiki though the URL is the same.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Revert "Only use the RSS proxy on foundationwiki"operations/mediawiki-configmaster+1 -5
Customize query in gerrit

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Krenair added a comment.Jul 19 2015, 4:57 PM

I found the problem - this is in our config:

if ( $wmgUseRSSExtension ) {
	include( "$IP/extensions/RSS/RSS.php" );
	// Only enable the proxy on foundationwiki since the blog
	// is now on an external host
	if ( $wgDBname === 'foundationwiki' ) {
		$wgRSSProxy = $wgCopyUploadProxy;
	}
	$wgRSSUrlWhitelist = $wmgRSSUrlWhitelist;
}

And so it only works on foundationwiki.

Krenair added a subscriber: Legoktm.Jul 19 2015, 4:58 PM
b9084a00 (Kunal Mehta 2014-09-23 18:51:01 -0700  992)   // Only enable the proxy on foundationwiki since the blog
b9084a00 (Kunal Mehta 2014-09-23 18:51:01 -0700  993)   // is now on an external host
b9084a00 (Kunal Mehta 2014-09-23 18:51:01 -0700  994)   if ( $wgDBname === 'foundationwiki' ) {
b9084a00 (Kunal Mehta 2014-09-23 18:51:01 -0700  995)           $wgRSSProxy = $wgCopyUploadProxy;
b9084a00 (Kunal Mehta 2014-09-23 18:51:01 -0700  996)   }
Krenair added a comment.Jul 19 2015, 5:00 PM

Caused by this commit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/162532/2

gerritbot subscribed.Jul 19 2015, 5:05 PM

Change 225717 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Revert "Only use the RSS proxy on foundationwiki"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/225717

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 19 2015, 5:05 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 22 2015, 11:42 PM

Change 225717 merged by jenkins-bot:
Revert "Only use the RSS proxy on foundationwiki"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/225717

Krenair mentioned this in rOMWC291bef368ad2: Revert "Only use the RSS proxy on foundationwiki".Jul 22 2015, 11:42 PM
Krenair closed this task as Resolved.Jul 23 2015, 12:10 AM
Krenair claimed this task.

Should be better now. Please open separate tasks for specific URLs which fail due to redirects.

Krenair moved this task from Backlog to Done on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Jul 23 2015, 4:50 PM
Krenair added a comment.Jul 23 2015, 7:41 PM

I'll note them here anyway. The ones broken due to redirects are WMUA's blog feed, which https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/222691/ will fix, and Mingle and BZ (both of which are not used anymore AFAIK).

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