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issueid=30700 Sat 24th Oct '09 11:56am
Senior Member
Duplicate RSS entries
I use the RSS feed from the announcement forum and noticed the following after the upgrade to vBulletin 4.0.0 Beta 1 here:

All entries are shown multiple times, each time my feed reader re-checks the feeds. Could this be related to the session id which is added to every link-element?
Issue Details
Issue Type Bug
Project vBulletin
Category RSS Feed Poster and Output
Status Fixed (Closed)
Priority 5 - Medium
Affected Version 4.0.0 Beta 1
Fixed Version 4.0.0 Beta 3
Users able to reproduce bug 9
Users unable to reproduce bug 0
Attachments 0
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)

Sat 24th Oct '09 2:27pm
Senior Member
  
Yes, the session parameter in all links is changing every so many minutes (probably because of caching).

hmm posting links is no good as they are always parsed...
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Sun 25th Oct '09 2:49am
Senior Member
  
This is also true for me.
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Sun 25th Oct '09 3:15am
Senior Member
  
I had to unsubscribe from the feed until this is fixed.
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Mon 26th Oct '09 9:23am
Member
  
Yes, true for me also. Annoying
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Mon 26th Oct '09 12:01pm
Senior Member
  
Yeah, when the forum was first switched over I had over 400 unread items (I assumed this was normal as it was the upgrade). But I'm getting the last 50 or so items from the "vBulletin Announcements" forum, every few hours.
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Mon 26th Oct '09 1:54pm
Member
  
Same for me.
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Tue 27th Oct '09 9:20pm
Senior Member
  
This is maddening. I hope you get it fixed soon so I can have an uncluttered Google Reader view again.
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Fri 30th Oct '09 10:13am
Senior Member
  
So, this one seems to be fixed but still shows as unconfirmed.
Might be a good chance to "fix" that. ;)
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Sat 31st Oct '09 7:22am
New Member
  
It's still not fixed. They should handle sessions based on IP and not sessionID when it comes to robots.. (:
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Mon 2nd Nov '09 1:06pm
Senior Member
  
Quote Originally Posted by Jockzor
{It's still not fixed. They should handle sessions based on IP and not sessionID when it comes to robots.. (:}
Yes, you're correct.
Last time I checked the session-id was gone, but that didn't solved the issue.
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Wed 4th Nov '09 5:43pm
M-D M-D is offline
New Member
  
Quote Originally Posted by daFish
{Yes, you're correct.
Last time I checked the session-id was gone, but that didn't solved the issue.}
That's because when you look, it gets your session id from a cookie.

When a bot looks (like google) it gets the session id from the URL.
Bots don't accept cookies, so that's why vBulletin add's the session ID to the URL.
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Thu 5th Nov '09 12:10am
vBulletin Team
  
This should be fixed shortly.
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This petition for a change to Fixed (Closed) was accepted
Sat 7th Nov '09 4:58am
New Member
  
My Google Reader seems to like vB.com again. Wayne for president!
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