RSS feed URL for outlook - Gaming category

Hopefully this is an easy question, does anyone know an outlook friendly rss feed address for the gaming category I can setup?

I click RSS on the page and it gives me the https://www.ozbargain.com.au/cat/gaming/feed url, but this doesn't work in outlook.

I have the frontpage one setup OK as - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/rss.xml - this works.. but can't seem to manipulate the gaming category feed URL to work for an outlook subscription. Any ideas?

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  • +1

    What do you mean by "not working"? The RSS feed itself is valid according to W3C Feed Validator.

  • Thanks for your quick reply Scotty. Outlook advises it cannot download the rss content because of a problem connecting to the server. I initially had a problem when using the https://www.ozbargain.com.au/feed url that I obtained from the front page, until I switched to the https://www.ozbargain.com.au/rss.xml link instead (which worked). I just can't seem to do the same with the gaming feed url.

    I can't be sure it's not a problem with outlook somewhere.. was just hoping to see if it's an easy workaround.

    Thanks for your time.

    • +1

      The second URL (rss.xml) actually bounced to Google's FeedBurner. Looks like Outlook has problem connecting to OzBargain feeds directly but okay when it's passed through a 3rd party service. It's possible that Outlook does not like RSS feed on HTTPS.

  • +1

    What version of Outlook are you using? I have 2007 and it's working here. Screenshot

  • Hmm, thanks both for your replies. I am using Outlook 2010. I'm sure I've had it working before too. May be something on my machine or network. That's all I wanted to clarify. Thanks for responding, if I know the URL should work I'll keep fighting with it from this end.

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