Error rendering macro rss: Illegal character in path

[Darya Novik]

Hey everyone :)

I have a problem with RSS feed macro. It still works well for some newsfeeds, and it used to work with https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/. However, since recently I keep getting this error:

Error rendering macro 'rss'

com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: Illegal character in path at index 61: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing aws license manager/

I assume that something has changed from AWS side and this 61th "space" symbol in "announcing aws..." causes the problem. Does anybody know how to solve this?

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I haven't tried it in the RSS macro, but I was able to fix another RSS system by encoding the spaces - replace " " with "%20" in the rss url you are trying to call.

[Piotr Janik]

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/rss-feed-macro-shows-error-rendering-macro-rss-962963634.html

In short, we're advised to check the feed with https://validator.w3.org/feed/ (or a similar tool). If it doesn't validate there, the feed is the matter. If it does validate there, Confluence is the matter.