Why doesn't miniflux just use the feed entered? Presented with 3 choices of feeds instead, none of which exist.

[dwayneem]

For the RSS feed - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/?cmp=rss

Initially, I received an error when trying to add this feed:

"Miniflux is not able to reach this website due to a network error: Get "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/?cmp=rss": stream error: stream ID 1; INTERNAL_ERROR; received from peer."

In advanced settings I set the option "Override Default User Agent" to "Mozilla/5.0". Now attempting to add the same feed results in Miniflux presenting a list of three feeds to choose from:

https://www.cbc.ca/rss/ (rss) https://www.cbc.ca/rss/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rss/ (rss) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rss/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/feed/ (atom) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/feed/

However, none of these exist on the website.

Why doesn't Miniflux just accept https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/?cmp=rss as the feed to use? It works fine in other RSS aggregators, such as Feedly.

[fguillot]

Try this feed URL instead: https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada-toronto (with the user agent override)

For reference, here is the list of RSS feeds provided by CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/rss/

I don't know if the CBC website has changed recently, but this URL https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/?cmp=rss returns a HTML page instead of a RSS feed. Since Miniflux was not able to find any feed using the standard discovery mechanism, it tries a list of possible feed URLs.

I made a small enhancement in pull-request #3079 to avoid the confusion. Miniflux should not return anymore a list of feeds to choose from when this scenario happens.