--- title: "Sometimes the lazyweb delivers with a deluge" date: 2005-12-19T18:15:03-05:00 url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/12/19/sometimes-the-lazyweb-delivers-with-a-deluge/ author: Les Orchard tags: [asides, xml, feedmagick, lazyweb, syndcation, facepalm] --- # Sometimes the lazyweb delivers with a deluge > [Kellan][k]: " '… and that’s not my code.' ouch" > > [Eric][e]: "Right now, the only thing we have special for Magpie RSS is that we don’t serve Atom to that user-agent if the version is 0.5." > > [Rasmus][r]: "I wrote a simple little PHP 5.1-based RSS parser a while back and it doesn’t have any problems with that ... feed." Source: Comments on my previous post [Facepalm][fp], [headdesk][hd]. As it turns out, the issue I was having with my PHP XML parsing was that I was trying to cram raw gzip streams down its throat, caused by some odd things I was trying to do with HTTP headers copied cargo-cult style from [a Python module I've tried reinventing in PHP][htc]. In other words, completely braindead work by someone who should know better, even though he's relatively new to PHP—where *he* is defined as ***me***. But, kudos to the people of the lazyweb for taking the time to triangulate me and remove all doubt within scant hours of my post. Not counting a half-dozen private emails, I got very quick responses from [the author of MagpieRSS][k], [the CTO of FeedBurner][e], and [the creator of PHP himself][r]—each very nicely, clearly, and rightly saying: **"...and that's not *my* code."** Be careful when you attempt to invoke the lazyweb, because it might just respond! [htc]: http://decafbad.com/trac/browser/trunk/FeedMagick/includes/HTTPCache.php [hd]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=headdesk [fp]: http://www.google.com/search?q=facepalm&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official [k]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/12/19/feedburner-feeds-give-heartburn-to-php-xml-parsers#comment-3200 [e]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/12/19/feedburner-feeds-give-heartburn-to-php-xml-parsers#comment-3204 [r]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/12/19/feedburner-feeds-give-heartburn-to-php-xml-parsers#comment-3209