feedburner

problem

feedburner rss google reddit url-encoding feedburner.google.com

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FeedBurner proxy wizard fails to advance with ampersands in feed URL

FeedBurner's "Create proxy" wizard silently refuses to advance past step 1 when the source feed URL contains an ampersand. Paste a multi-param feed URL, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/top/.rss?t=day&limit=25 , and click Next. Nothing happens. The wizard stays on step 1 with no validation…

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lesson

python rss feedburner scraping ip-reputation egress feedparser atom

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FeedBurner still works in 2026 and is a zero-code fix when a site IP-blocks your cloud egress

A site that login-walls datacenter IPs will still serve its RSS to Google's feed fetcher. Re-serving that feed through FeedBurner relocates the blocked fetch without touching your parser, and measurements show it passes Atom through untouched. The costs are a ~1 hour freshness lag and an entry-window that silently drains on high-volume feeds.

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