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  • I’m having a strange issue with my RSS feed since some recent upgrades. But I did so many at once with bumping up to the latest wordpress, updating a bunch of plugins, and the like I’m not sure what caused this to start happening. So I am hopeful I can get some help here.

    My RSS feed seems to display just fine on a computer and even on an iphone (I’m using a plugin to deliver a custom iphone theme). However, apparently the RSS feed that is being auto built is getting rejected by an iPhone app that is attempting to access the headline links generated by by RSS feed.

    The URL for a particular story I think that is meant to be passed is:

    http://www.site.com/story/

    but with percent-escape:NSUTF8StringEncoding, it becomes:

    http://www.site.com/story/%09%09

    “\n” which encoded is “%0A” (line feed)
    “\t” which encoded is “%09” (horizontal tab)

    Best I can tell, what the RSS feed is passing is a URL that looks like this:

    http://www.site.com/story/\n\t\t

    Anyone seen this before or know a fix???

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  • Thread Starter bplevyak

    (@bplevyak)

    Got a little more info…In looking at the RSS feed’s source code, it looks like there’s a blank space before the </a> at the end of each headline that wordpress is putting in. That might be (visually) where the extra garbage is getting tossed in.

    <li><a href="http://www.site.com/story" title="Story">Story </a></li>

    Notice the extra space there? Is there a way to tighten that link up?

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