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1. 2012olympiccompetitor
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   Jun 13, 2006, 8:04 PM

   Hi

   I'm having some issues with setting up an RSS widget using a BBC RSS feed. (See http://footballpredictionleague.wordpress.com)

   The feed I'm trying to use is :

   feed://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/football/rss.xml

   Which is the RSS version of this :

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/default.stm

   When I put the feed:// into the RSS widget, it tells me that "An error has occured; the feed is probably down. Try again later."

   Anyone help me out here - I've never managed to get a feed to work.

   J

2. drmike
   Member
   Jun 13, 2006, 8:13 PM

   Greets:

   Use http:// instead of feed://

   Granted the feed:// is probably more correct but the http:// worked fine for me.

   http: //newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/football/rss.xml

   A space was added after the colon to get it to show up here. Remove it when you use it.

   Hope this helps,
   -drmike

3. 2012olympiccompetitor
   Member
   Jun 13, 2006, 8:24 PM

   thanks good Doctor. Threading closing.

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