iTunes Podcast HTTP 400 error

I always feel special when I search Google for a very specific error message and find absolutely zero other references to it online.

This time, I was developing a PHP-generated RSS feed for consumption as a podcast. I was testing the feed in iTunes, which was giving me the helpful error message

An unknown error has occurred (400)

The Apache error log, meanwhile was telling me

request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string

In the end, the problem turned out to be with unencoded spaces in the enclosure filename; where the enclosure tag should have looked like

<enclosure url="http://127.0.0.1/files/devuser/01%20In%20The%20Limelight.mp3" length="2026554" type="audio/mpeg"/>

The tag causing the error looked like

<enclosure url="http://127.0.0.1/files/devuser/01 In The Limelight.mp3" length="2026554" type="audio/mpeg"/>

(Shame on me.)

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Sue wrote 8 years 31 weeks ago

geek :-D

geek :-D

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