RSS feeds

[sijpie]

I am not sure if this is the right forum for RSS feed design, but here goes...

I have created a asp page that will generate rss 2.0 output from my news items, so that readers can check the news in their aggregators: www.palmvenue.com/rss/palmnews-rss.asp

But my rss feed seems to behave slightly different from other feeds, and I don't understand where the difference lies. The output validates as proper rss.

Some aggregators (for instance the Mozilla ad-in) show on the icon if there are new items, by adding a star on the icon. My rss feed however shows a '?'.

In IE, if I click on an RSS feed page, I see the xml code. However, if I enter my rss feed url, I get asked if I want to download the page to my hard disk. (doing this and checking the xml code against someone elses shows nothing intrinsically different).

Is this behaviour because my page has an asp extension or is it something else?

None of these things are really important, because the feed works as intended, but I would like to understand what is happening.
Appreciate your comments.

[ranjan]

Response.ContentType = "text/xml"

Do you have a line in your ASP code as above or something similar telling the user agent what your content type is?

my rss feed is here and is built as an asp

http://ranjan.ws/rss.asp

[sijpie]

Thanks Ranjan,

that sorts the viewing it in IE problem!

I will check at home how it looks in a reader (can't use them at work). Excellent tip.