RSS: "Error loading feed" for HTTPS feeds

[jith45]

I'm getting a "Error loading feed" error for HTTPS feeds for the rutorrent install I just setup and I'm not sure why. For example if I click "Add RSS Feed" and enter "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=horse_ebooks" as the feed it will give me the error. If I instead use "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss" the feed will load properly and show up in the feed list. Searching previous posts seems to suggest that curl could be the problem, but I have the correct path to curl in my config.php file and I'm not seeing any error from rutorrent about not being able to use curl. Also, this is on Ubuntu 12.04 with rutorrent 3.5 (svn $Rev 2261). I also have another machine running Debian Squeeze rutorrent 3.5 (svn $Rev 2256) that I setup exactly the same way as this one, and it works with both HTTP and HTTPS feeds. Is there any way for me to check some sort of debug or error log to see what specifically is failing with this so I can fix it?

 

[dsouvik215]

If you has a curl problem, then you must see a warning in the log panel after the interface load. Do you see it?

 

[somus1735]

No, there's no mention of a curl problem in the log panel. If I comment out the line in config.php that has the correct path to curl I get that warning, but when the path is correct the log doesn't mention anything about curl.

 

[shwetha17]

I figured it out. I tried a normal "curl https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=horse_ebooks" command in my shell and it came back with the error "Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl". Apparently the version of curl I had installed was not configured to support HTTPS. I compiled from source and make sure that the correct protocols were supported and now everything is working. In the future though it might be helpful to pass along any errors that you get from curl in the rutorrent rss loading error, because that would have made debugging easier.