we had difficulty reading this feed. Bad http result code :-1 please Help

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we had difficulty reading this feed. Bad http result code :-1 please Help

Im trying to put out Church Podcast in the itunes store, It is setup from sermonshare.net. The podcast works fine, when I try and put our RSS submit to the podcast link I get this error "we had difficulty reading this feed. Bad http result code :-1" I have validated the link, I am in constant talks with sermonshare as well as itunes support and I was directed here, someone please help.

http://Christcenteredonline.sermon.net/rss/main

Thank you and God bless you

I dont know if this matters im on windows 8.1 and im using itunes 12.1.2.27

Posted on May 27, 2015 4:56 AM

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Answer 1

May 27, 2015 5:10 AM in response to helpsubmittingpodcast

I'm afraid I can't be of much help. The feed appears to be fine: it validates in FeedValidator, it works OK in a browser, and it can be subscribed to successfully in iTunes. Testing it in Terminal with curl produced nothing untoward. I'm afraid it's something that only your hosting service can address. Incidentally I can't find anything about a '-1' error for http - all the listed error codes I could find are three digit, e.g. 401 (no file found).

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Answer 2

May 27, 2015 5:31 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thats exactly why we are stumped, the support guy from sermonshare even went as far as unclicking all the sermons/bible studies i had to just the Month of May and even that came up with that error. our podcast update 2x weekly no problems, for some reason I cant submit this link. I appreciate you trying, we cant give up.......

God bless you

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Answer 3

May 27, 2015 12:25 PM in response to helpsubmittingpodcast

helpsubmittingpodcast,

Did you submit the url with a capital "C" in Christ? If so, consider submitting it as all lowercase (most/all Linux servers differentiate "C" and "c".

Accessing the url with a capital C:

http://Christcenteredonline.sermon.net/rss/main

redirects to:

http://christcenteredonline.sermon.net/rss/main

This shouldn't matter, but if you have ruled out all else, consider resubmitting as lowercase. Others have noted issues with case-sensetive URLs at Sermon.net:

The podcasts are at sermon.net/FentonFMC ; the FentonFMC part of the URL is case sensitive.

via FriarChuck.

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Answer 4

May 27, 2015 1:30 PM in response to Podcast_Fan

You are awesome!!!!!! It worked, changed the C to c and it worked thank you so much God Bless you!!!

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