# Testing RSS feeds on Tiger **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 22, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-rss-feeds-on-tiger/48590 "2005-11-22T15:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratkins_usenet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-rss-feeds-on-tiger/48590/1 "2005-11-22T15:09:28Z")
I’m trying to write a RoR program to create an RSS feed. I’m pretty sure the XML it’s producing is valid (it looks fine when viewed in Firefox) but I get very strange behaviour when testing it in Safari. If I hit “[http://localhost/rss/](http://localhost/rss/)”, Safari does a redirect to “feed:http://” and then of course fails. If I’m lucky (!) Safari then refuses to load any more web pages unless I restart it. So I experimented by saving the “View Source” of the page (courtesy of Firefox) into a static file and put that in my ~/Sites dir. Now when I go to [http://localhost/~ratkins/example.xml](http://localhost/~ratkins/example.xml), I get a redirect to [http://example.xml/](http://example.xml/), which of course fails. Can anybody tell me what’s going on? Cheers, Robert. ---
**Author:** ![ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratkins_usenet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-rss-feeds-on-tiger/48590/2 "2005-11-22T15:29:36Z")
In article \<4383250f$0$13315$removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > , > Robert A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m trying to write a RoR program to create an RSS feed. I’m pretty sure > the XML it’s producing is valid (it looks fine when viewed in Firefox) > but I get very strange behaviour when testing it in Safari. > […] > Can anybody tell me what’s going on? Not from the info you gave, but there is one thing you should do: make sure that you know the XML you produce is valid, for instance using [http://www.feedvalidator.org/](http://www.feedvalidator.org/). In my experience, Safari is quite picky about feed formats, compared to NetNewsWire. If that does not help, you should provide a short example of the XML you generate. I also would suggest doing that in a different newsgroup, since this has nothing to do with ruby (yes, you are using ruby to generate the XML, but as far as I can tell from your post, you do not have problems with rails or ruby) and this group already is quite busy. Reinder ---
**Author:** ![ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratkins_usenet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-rss-feeds-on-tiger/48590/3 "2005-11-22T15:41:41Z")
Safari doesn’t like feeds from localhost. It’s a real pain. You might be able to do some hosts file or dns trickery (I usually test my XML feeds being served from my desktop (linux) to my laptop (osx)) ---
**Author:** ![ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@ratkins\_usenet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratkins_usenet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-rss-feeds-on-tiger/48590/4 "2005-11-22T22:28:32Z")
Safari has a bug prevents viewing feeds unless there’s at least one dot in the hostname. If you use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost it should work.