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Klaus Wilde resolved
Hello everyone. I use DITTY with the RSS feed version and am very happy with it. There is now a problem that you would like to solve. It concerns the website: https://mecker-ecke.com When I call up the feed: https://www.nius.de/rss in my local instance, the RSS feed works perfectly. The WordPress installation is installed on WP-Local. If I want to use the feed online, an error message appears saying that the RSS file is faulty and cannot be loaded. I would like to have the problem solved. Thank you. Regards, Klaus Wilde DITTY-Offline.png DITTY-Online.png The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Klaus, thanks for reaching out, I am seeing the same thing you are seeing, but don’t have . I have tested a few things to provide some insight: If you add the RSS feed to the basic WordPress RSS block/widget on your remote site, you’ll get the same error. Ditty RSS uses the same RSS reader that WordPress does, so this is not a Ditty specific issue. If you run the RSS feed through a validator you’ll see that it does not validate: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nius.de%2Frss I ran a bunch of tests and tried access the feed url directly using cURL and still get a 403 ERROR. It looks like the request is being blocked by Amazon CloudFront, which is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) used by https://www.nius.de . The 403 error specifically indicates that the request is being denied, likely due to security policies configured on CloudFront. I’ll do a bit more research on this, but you may need to reach out to the source site and see if they can provide any advice/insight on getting access to the feed on a remote site. Thank you for your investigation. I wrote a eMail to NIUS with the validation report to solve the problem.

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metaphorcreations 2024-12-27T13:31:00+00:00

Klaus, thanks for reaching out, I am seeing the same thing you are seeing, but don’t have . I have tested a few things to provide some insight: If you add the RSS feed to the basic WordPress RSS block/widget on your remote site, you’ll get the same error. Ditty RSS uses the same RSS reader that WordPress does, so this is not a Ditty specific issue. If you run the RSS feed through a validator you’ll see that it does not validate: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nius.de%2Frss I ran a bunch of tests and tried access the feed url directly using cURL and still get a 403 ERROR. It looks like the request is being blocked by Amazon CloudFront, which is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) used by https://www.nius.de . The 403 error specifically indicates that the request is being denied, likely due to security policies configured on CloudFront. I’ll do a bit more research on this, but you may need to reach out to the source site and see if they can provide any advice/insight on getting access to the feed on a remote site.

Klaus Wilde 2024-12-28T07:40:00+00:00

Thank you for your investigation. I wrote a eMail to NIUS with the validation report to solve the problem.