Cached RSS Feed Comments Break Parsers

  • Resolved devleader

    (@devleader)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    I have a lot of Zapier automation wired up, and as soon as there’s caching enabled for the RSS feed it breaks parsers. This is because the plugin is adding this extra fun little segment outside of the RSS structure:

    </rss> <!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/ Page Caching using Disk: Enhanced (User is logged in) Minified using Disk (Request URI is rejected) Served from: www.devleader.ca @ 2024-04-07 11:37:56 by W3 Total Cache -->

    Of course, if I owned the parser logic I would try to handle this more appropriately – but I don’t. So my options right now are:
    1) Turn off caching for my RSS feed (which feels pretty bad)
    2) Create a web API that can parse the feed with this unhelpful comment, and then point my other automation at my API (which feels even worse)

    Is there an option just to disable these comments? I understand we might want them for debugging or something but… It’s not helpful if it’s breaking stuff 🙂

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hello @devleader

    Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to help!

    There is no option to disable this in the W3 Total Cache. This is mostly used for debugging. Let me check this more and I’ll get back to you with more information if this can be removed programmatically.

    Thanks!

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