RSS widget has funny chars in the feeds
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The RSS widget seems to have these funny black diamond question marks randomly sprinkled throughout the feed. I don't see this behaviour with the 2.1.5 RSS widget.
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Yes, it does that for me also. On a 2.1.5 system the same feed looks clean. I had a look at the page source from https://blog.pfsense.org and that looks like quite clean text.
I put the rss.widget.php from 2.1.5 onto 2.2 - didn't fix it. Copied a few css, js from 2.1.5, refreshing each time. None of that fixed it.
It uses simplepie.inc and strip_tags() to fetch and clean the content for display - can't see an obvious place where that changed.
There will be something somewhere in css, js, inc file that changed - but I can't see it in a reasonable amount of time.
(Or my testing is not effective - perhaps my refreshes are not really invoking the old code I copied on…) -
IT'S A SHOW-STOPPER! ICEBERG AHEAD!!
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I thought it would be a 5 to 10 minute job to find an obvious bit of code in a change that no longer stripped the RSS fed characters completely. But it seems to be a deep mystery of the universe, along with 42.
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Appears to be a couple of issues:
We are proud to announce pfSense® software version 2.2 Release Candidate is now available! This should be a short release candidate cycle, so we encourage you to try it out ASAP to help us with the final push to release. Jim posted a [good overview of the significant changes](https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1486) previously. A more comprehensive list of changes can be found on the [2.2 New Features and Changes page](https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.2_New_Features_and_Changes).(1) The space has been hardcoded with HTML and
(2) it appears that the feed doesn't like special characters, for example; the registration mark after pfSense.It does appear in both v2.1.5 (amd64) and v2.2-RC (amd64).
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It does appear in both v2.1.5 (amd64) and v2.2-RC (amd64).
I have 2 instances of pfSense running, 2.1.5 and 2.2-RC. The problem only shows itself in the RSS feed of 2.2-RC.
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@KOM:
It does appear in both v2.1.5 (amd64) and v2.2-RC (amd64).
I have 2 instances of pfSense running, 2.1.5 and 2.2-RC. The problem only shows itself in the RSS feed of 2.2-RC.
Same for me - on 2.1.5 the widget handles and displays the non-breaking space thing OK. On 2.2-RC it displays the "?" diamond box.
Then I went to a 2.1.5 system that had not used RSS widget before. When I first enabled it, the "?" diamond boxes appeared, then it refreshed a few seconds later (maybe when I pressed Save Settings on the new dashboard layout) and the "?" diamond boxes were gone.
So, some more clues to track down this highly important bug ;) -
So, some more clues to track down this highly important bug
The Black Diamond bug is the kind of bug you can really sink your teeth into…
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Black diamonds are missing from RSS feed's NTP story. Hooray!
