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1. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   All my links seem to point tot eh correct php file for the correct feed but when i click on them they open up as downlaods rather than linking to another webpage.
   Help!

2. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Sorry, forgot to include my code for the links...
   ">RSS Feed
">Atom Feed

3. Mark McKibben
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   RSS & Atom feeds aren't another webpage; they're special XML files that your browser doesn't appear to know what to do with. Have you tried viewing your feeds via a feed aggregator?

4. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #

   You can verify there's nothing wrong with your feeds by using something like Feed Validator. If there's something amiss in the xml it should be able to tell you. Otherwise (though they may not seem to) things are functioning normally.

5. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Nothing's wrong: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joliesonline.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-atom.php
   That is how atom is supposed to function. If a user wants your atom feed, they just plug the atom feed URL into their feed reader. http://www.joliesonline.com/blog/wp-atom.php

6. wordpresser32
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I have the same problem. the thing is that i would like to put a link on my website to the atom feed. so wehn people click it it will open the save dialogue which is not good. No work around for this?

   The rss2 and rss wordpress feeds also point to a php file but they will show corectly in your browser and not open the save dialogue. Why?

7. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Because your browser is not how you "read" an atom feed.

   People using atom feeds use them from RSS Feed Readers.

8. faustina
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I don't know a lot about feeds, but couldn't you simply burn your feed with feedburner.com and put a link to that, that will bring up a nice viewable page through feedburner.

   If this is a stupid suggestion please disreguard it completely. lol.

9. wordpresser32
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   its not a bad suggestion. i thought about this already but dont want to do this for this blog. any other ideas?

10. Otto
    Tech Ninja
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Nobody uses ATOM feeds, really. Stick to RSS, that's my advice. Just remove the link to the ATOM feed completely.

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