RSS feed problem: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/feed/

I can’t add https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/ (either directly, or through its “Entries RSS” link)

I can hit the RSS URL with curl and it seems to come down fine.

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You have to use the RSS url directly: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/f…

Trying to find the RSS feed from that website doesn’t work because the site doesn’t publish the correct link tag.

>>> feedfinder.feed(u)
looking for LINK tags
using lxml to look for LINK tags
found 0 feeds through LINK tags
no LINK tags, looking at A tags
no LINK tags, looking at local links
no A tags, guessing
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/f… is a feed
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/a… is a feed
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/i… is a feed
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/i… is a feed
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/r… is a feed
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/i… is a feed
seeing if https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/i… is a feed

Oh, and if you noticed that it found the correct javascript/feed url during the feed finder phase, try grabbing it directly and you’ll see that the site has an SSL certificate problem. It’s pointing to the wrong domain!

>>> r = requests.get(‘https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/f…’)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.12.1-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py”, line 52, in get
return request(‘get’, url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.12.1-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py”, line 40, in request
return s.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.12.1-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py”, line 229, in request
r.send(prefetch=prefetch)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.12.1-py2.7.egg/requests/models.py”, line 609, in send
raise SSLError(e)
SSLError: hostname ‘blog.mozilla.org’ doesn’t match ‘blog.mozilla.com

Yikes! You can imagine that most of these “rss feeds don’t work” problems all have their own unique reasons.

Aaand mozilla have since fixed their cert. Thanks!