[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8495: Dashboard RSS errors not handled well

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#8495: Dashboard RSS errors not handled well
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 Reporter:  DD32    |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  2.8
Component:  UI      |     Version:  2.7
 Severity:  normal  |    Keywords:     
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 The Dashboard RSS items do not handle errors very well.

 For example, Upon an error occuring in fetching the Feed, The Feed URL
 will be set to 'Error: could not find an RSS or ATOM feed at that URL.'
 with no feedback to the UI that an error has occured (other than that its
 blank).

 It appears that the main cause for the error in my case, was the magpie
 fetch time limit of 2 seconds being too slow for my connection, increasing
 it to 10 allows it to fetch the entire RSS feed, but that is hopefully
 only a issue on home-hosted installs.

 dump of the widget_options:
 {{{
   'dashboard_secondary' =>
     array
       'title' => string 'Other WordPress News' (length=20)
       'url' => string 'Error: could not find an RSS or ATOM feed at that
 URL.' (length=54)
       'link' => string '' (length=0)
       'items' => int 15
       'error' => string 'Error in RSS 0' (length=14)
       'show_summary' => int 1
       'show_author' => int 1
       'show_date' => int 1
 }}}

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