Howdy bros. I'm having a problem trying to parse an RSS feed using XML::FeedPP. The feed is al Aribiya English, which looks like a normal feed when opened in a browser. I am getting it with XML::FeedPP like so:
    $feedurl = 'http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_meast.xml';
    eval { $feed = XML::FeedPP->new( $feedurl ) };
    if ($@) {
        print LOG "\tFeed Error: $@\n";
    }

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When this executes STDERR gives a message that says: 
Invalid string: [\xEF\xBF\xBD\x788\x4D\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF
+\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\x3F\xEF\xBF\xBD\
+xEF\xBF\xBD\x5D\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\x03\x55\x73\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\x
+BF\xBD\xCC\x8D\x15\x73\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xB
+D\xEF\xBF\xBD\x10\x1A\xEF\xBF\xBD\x00'\x5B\xEF\xBF\xBD\x0C\x76\x1D\x7
+4\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\x64\x78\x71\xEF\xBF\xBD\x13\x60\xDC\xBB\xEF
+\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD(\x60\xEF\xBF\xBD\x5C\x65\xEF\xBF\xBD
+\xEF\xBF\xBD=\x67\xEF\xBF\xBD\x0F\x16\xEF\xBF\xBD\x13\xEF\xBF\xBD&\x6
+7\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\x52\x69\x15!\x170\x16\x1E\x58\xEF\xBF\xBD\x
+60\xEF\xBF\xBD\x6B%\xEF\xBF\xBD(\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\
+xEF\xBF\xBD\x0F\x55\xEF\xBF\xBD\x04\x6C\x19\x15\x73\xEF\xBF\xBD\x57\x
+4A\xEF\xBF\xBD\x6C\x75\xEF\xBF\xBD2\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\x
+BD\x0B'\x74\xCD\x8E\x5E\xEF\xBF\xBD\x57\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\x48\x
+EF\xBF\xBD\x72\x4C\x6B\x55\x63,\x01\x04\x10\xEF\xBF\xBD\xEF\xBF\xBD\x
+0L�3\xEF\xBF\xBD\x7B\x77\x05\xEF\xBF\xBD\xDD\xBB\xEF\xBF\xBD\x11\x7
+3\xEF\xBF\xBD\x79\xEF\xBF\xBD\x46] before <S
�=�68�]¿½e�^��*���¿½7ï2B�Ì��簡$3�35*y> at /
+home2/alkisahi/perl/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XML/FeedPP.pm line 
+521

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Actually, it gives about five such invalid string errors.

The LOG written in the if statement above says:

Feed Error: Invalid feed format: %&#65533;:&#65533;q&#65533;&#65533;&#
+65533;J&#65533;&#65533;DB"b&#65533;`

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Then the whole script crashes.

This is puzzling in many ways. First, I don't get why the whole script crashes, given that the call is being made inside an eval block. Second, I don't know where these invalid strings are coming from because like I said the feed looks pretty normal to me. Third, XML::FeedPP is crashing on line 521, which is the first line of the following: 

    if ( $method eq 'url' ) {
        $tree = $tpp->parsehttp( GET => $source );
    }

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which doesn't even seem to be evaluating a string from the feed. :-/

Does anyone have any idea what is going on here or how I can debug?

TIA...Steve

In reply to XML::FeedPP Crashing Despite Eval by cormanaz

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