RSS feed?

jmerelo on 2002-10-14T18:06:17

RSS feed does not seem to work. I have tried to download using wget "http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=rss&uid=121" but it returns a normal HTML page, not the RSS feed. Is anybody using it?


wget and RSS

TorgoX on 2002-10-14T21:34:23

I get weirdness too:
wget "http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=rss&uid=121"
--15:29:07--  http://use.perl.org:80/journal.pl?op=rss&uid=121
           => `journal.pl?op=rss&uid=121'
Connecting to use.perl.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://use.perl.org/search.pl?op=journals [following]
--15:29:10--  http://use.perl.org:80/search.pl?op=journals
           => `search.pl?op=journals'
Connecting to use.perl.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
search.pl?op=journals: No such file or directory

FAQ is Wrong

pudge on 2002-10-14T21:36:33

I suck, and aim to rectify. Try http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=121&content_type=rss in the meantime.

Re:FAQ is Wrong

jmerelo on 2002-10-15T05:58:52

That does the job. Thanks!

Re:FAQ is Wrong

jmerelo on 2002-10-15T06:01:20

BTW, the only way to get the user ID is to look at the pages' source?

Re:FAQ is Wrong

jmerelo on 2002-10-15T06:02:32

Bummer, you just have to look at these messages :-(

Re:wget and RSS

camilleespanol on 2007-07-18T17:17:52

The reason is because the url contains special characters, which indeed are ampersand. So whenever you've got `& in the url, just espace them using \. You can try it different ways: 1 wget 'http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=rss&uid=121' 2 wget http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=rss\&uid=121 3 or even wget http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=rss&uid=121\"" Whichever works for you. Cheers and happy wget Camille