Comments on: Scribefire error solved: Server returned malformed response.

By: Pantyhose Party

Pantyhose Party — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:53:00 +0000

I have the same bug but my XML file comes out clean… I have erased some postmeta content though regarding a few values I had attributed to custom fields, could that be the problem?

By: benshoemate

benshoemate — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:12:21 +0000

Sorry - I switched to windows live writer
http://www.benshoemate.com/2008/11/29/windows-l...

By: hemanshurpatel

hemanshurpatel — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:49:14 +0000

hi,
i am still having the issue.
actually i am using scribdfire with joomla 1.5.15
and it gives me above mentioned error.

Can you help me in sorting out the problem on joomla?
i have seen my template.html page, but couldnt find any....
looking for any suggestion

By: Ben Shoemate

Ben Shoemate — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:33:40 +0000

The theme did not cause it on its own, it was a modification I made when I commented out a suspicious looking encoded line (the author of the theme wanted to ensure a link was left in so he encoded it so that most users would be afraid to mess with it). I’m not sure if the original theme author did this, or a spammer (some sites will collect free themes and modify them to add their own links or even ads…)

I am currently using the a modified version of Businesslite 1.0 by Makequick. The problem started when I went into the them editor and changed commented out a line of code in Theme Functions (functions.php). You can see that stange code in the screenshot in my post.

I’m not sure why that commented out line of code was include in my site’s xml but it was. Removing it fixed the problem.

BTW – I am a big fan and recommend your product to everyone I can. Keep up the great work.

By: Fred Lu

Fred Lu — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:54:16 +0000

Hi Ben,

My name is Fred, and I am the product manager for Scribefire. I have actually seen this error on occasion for other people, and it is great to see you have found the problem.

I was wondering, where can i find a copy/whatever of the theme(s) which have caused this problem so we can figure out how to fix it on our side. You can contact me at email provided if there is anything we can help with.

By: obsessive

obsessive — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:24:15 +0000

i’m half thinking you’ll say to open the file in notepad and search in there — not sure if i can do that, but i’ll give it a try

By: obsessive

obsessive — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:22:56 +0000

hey, thanks for this! it looks like the problem is getting a little closer to being solved…
i’ve done as you suggested, and found the error in the code.
what do you do if you don’t have enough tech knowledge to find the error in the theme editor?
my error message in firefox reads:
XML Parsing Error: prefix not bound to a namespace
Location: file:///((((my path details))).xml
Line Number 79, Column 1:
^

i’ve done a firefox “find” search in every plugin and theme file for “excerpt:encode” and other parts of the above – and it doesn’t appear to be anywhere?
any help would be greatly appreciated

By: Ben Shoemate

Ben Shoemate — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:10:55 +0000

No problem. It was killing me too. I’m going to go find the forums and blogs out there having the same problem and tell people about it. If you see any others – please link them here.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:09:13 +0000

Ahhh! Thanks man! This is great, I have been having this issue for weeks. It is so frustrating. This worked perfectly. Thanks again.