Comment 1 for bug 659525

Thanks for the report. I think this has to do with HTTP redirects. After the 2.1 release a few people reported that certain sites didn't work and in most of the cases it turned out to be an issue with the server not following redirects. Some feeds contain item URLs which redirect to the actual source (you'll see if you hover over the links in the NYT feed that they show something like http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo... but when you click they redirect somewhere else). Some servers, although very few that I've come across, appear to have this simple redirect following disabled. I'm not sure that that's the cause, but I've attached an updated compatibility test file which tries to check if the server supports HTTP redirects. Can you try it and tell me what it shows?