Title: RSS/Atom error message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS/Atom error message

 *  [richienz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richienz/)
 * (@richienz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssatom-error-message/)
 * Something I just observed is that when the database server is down and someone
   tries to view a RSS or Atom feed, then WordPress will return an error message
   formated in XHTML.
 * I thought it would be better if WordPress could return the error message in the
   format that was requested (either RSS or Atom).

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 * Last reply from: [richienz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richienz/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssatom-error-message/)
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