QNetworkAccessManger get returns invalid XML as response for few URLs

Revathy

I am using qt - QNetworkAccessManager to read contents from a News portal as shown below

QNetworkReply *reply;
QNetworkAccessManager *network = new QNetworkAccessManager;
network->setNetworkAccessible(QNetworkAccessManager::Accessible);

reply = network->get(QNetworkRequest(QUrl("http://news.yahoo.com/rss/sports")));

//Another URL to test "http://news.yahoo.com/rss/baseball"

And the I am trying to read the response as shown below

QString response = reply->readAll();

For few URLs we get proper XML as reply but for few others the XMLs are not proper.

The problem here is - Same URLs for which the XMLs were not well formed works fine everytime showing proper output on desktop browser.

We are able to reproduce this issue with QtSDK/demos/4.7/declarative/rssnews example too if we try to hardcode the above mentioned URL there.

Example for Invalid XML obtained looks something like below : (Proper XML should have title, description tags)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd"><html lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><title>Sports News Headlines - Yahoo! News</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><style type="text/css">body{color:#353535;background:#ffffff;font-family:Sans-serif}a{color:#006ec2;text-decoration:none}a.z, a.y, a.x, a.w, a.v, .u a{text-decoration:none}body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{padding:0;margin:0}img{border:0}hr{display:none;visibility:hidden;width:0}#page{background:
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NicuPopescu

Hi,

you should read data from the reply after finished() signal is emitted ... have you done so?

Revathy

Yes I am reading data only after finished() signal is emitted.