After my post about signing up for Share Your OPML, I spent some more time cleaning up feeds and getting an OPML file available for use. As I mentioned in the post, when I put an OPML file on my server and pointed the SYO site at it, it didn't work (just a blank page). Uploading a file directly to their server worked great. I found that even when trying to fetch that file myself via the browser or wget, I got a 404 error -- despite it clearly being in the right place.

It turns out that the SYO service couldn't see the file, and it was my fault... the sub-domain on my server didn't have the MIME type information it needed for an OPML file. Now that that has been entered, I went back to SYO and confirmed that it's working correctly. I think the only thing SYO could have done differently would have been to let me know that the file wasn't found (404)... but it's working (and fast) now, so all's well.

Thanks to Dan who commented on the original post, looking for details so he could look into the issue on the service.

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