Amphetadesk error message

December 5, 2002 10:27 AM

Playing with Amphetadesk, and got this error message:

AmphetaDesk could not determine the format of http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml.
posted by mecran01 to Bugs at 10:27 AM (5 comments total)

Recently discussed.
posted by timeistight at 10:42 AM on December 5, 2002

There were some illegal characters in someone's post, which happens pretty often around here. It's fixed now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:10 AM on December 5, 2002

THanks, I discovered the earlier post about 30 seconds after writing this, and learned a little more about RSS in the process. Filtering for illegal characters would probably be a nightmare.
posted by mecran01 at 1:05 PM on December 5, 2002

Such is the life of the Border Patrol!
posted by crunchland at 1:50 PM on December 5, 2002 [1 favorite]

*Claude Rains voice*

Round up the usual illegal characters.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 2:11 PM on December 5, 2002