Feed Fails to Update (News 27.2.0)

[Sortova]

I have a particular feed, http://thedrive.com/feed/feed.rss that refused to update. If I delete it and re-add it, new articles show up, but then they will never update.

[anoymouserver]

Do you use this exact same URL? At least from my end your URL leads to a 404 page not found.
According to their site, the feed ist located at https://www.thedrive.com/feed/ (https, no feed.rss) and is valid. Maybe try this one and see if that changes anything.

[Sortova]

Sorry. I was trying to be clever and failed once again.

Here's what I do. I add "https://thedrive.com" and auto-discover the feed. This works and will show me unread articles. But then the feed never updates. If I go to "https://thedrive.com/feed" my browser will download "feed.rss" and that shows me newer articles, I'm just confused as to why the News app doesn't update.

Note that this used to work just fine. I've followed that site for over a year now. Just recently I noticed it wasn't updating.

Thanks for looking at this. I appreciate it.

[wofferl]

This is a problem with the feeds web server, which uses the EST time zone for the last-modified header, which is incorrect (HTTP time stamps must always use GMT). As a result, the update requests always receive a 304 - not modified response because the time is always 5 hours ahead.

Here an example with curl which shows the problem:

curl -I --header 'If-Modified-Since: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:00:00 GMT' https://www.thedrive.com/feed

HTTP/2 304 
server: nginx
date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:45:22 GMT
last-modified: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:44:04 EST

curl -I --header 'If-Modified-Since: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT' https://www.thedrive.com/feed

HTTP/2 200 
server: nginx
date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:45:03 GMT
last-modified: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:44:04 EST

[Sortova]

Thanks. I might just script it to download the feed and replace the time zone since I don't think I can get the site owner to correct their system

[Sortova]

This helped me with a work-around. I set up a cronjob to download the feed to a local machine, and then pointed News at that feed. Works fine now. Thank you so much.