Thingamablog Blog

My Sage RSS Feed Broke

When I switched over from .html files to .php files my Sage RSS feed broke. What happened was that clicking on the feed name showed me an old page with links to the old .html files, which no longer existed. After a few sessions with Thingamablog and FileZilla I convinced myself that that the rss.xml file was updating properly when I published. I set Thingamablog to publish the full entries in the rss.xml file and uploaded the whole blog. After publishing the blog and then downloading rss.xml it was clear that the file had been properly updated.

When I went back to my RSS Sage feed, I got the same old page. Stale info and stale pointers. And no obvious way to remove the cached file. I tried refreshing the page, but Sage was showing a local file with the information in it, and nothing changed.

I finally fixed it by going out to the blog page and clicking directly on the "Syndicate this site" link to the rss.xml. Firefox showed me the same old stale file. But this time when I hit the refresh button, the file was updated. Then, when I went back to my Sage RSS reader, it had the new information.

Very strange.