Example:
If I set $wgFeed=false and try to access:
I get:
` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:46:14 GMT Server: Apache X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff MediaWiki-API-Error: feed-unavailable X-Frame-Options: DENY Content-language: pl,en X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Content-Length: 4090 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 `
with HTML-ized json response
`{
"error": {
"code": "feed-unavailable",
"info": "Syndication feeds are not available",
"*": "See http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~saper/y/api.php for API usage"
}
}`But when I try to access watchlist feed:
I get
` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:48:38 GMT Server: Apache X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Content-Length: 613 Connection: close Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: pl `
with an RSS-formatted item with an error message.
I think we should send a proper HTTP error code (403 or something like that) and the XML message that RSS readers might interpret.