Plugin says awareness API isn't enabled, Feedburner says yes it is.

[James]

I just installed the feed stats plugin a few minutes ago, and figured
setup would be easy enough. Except not really. I got it installed, and
nothing broke. But when I paste my feed URL and try to test it, it
tells me the awareness API isn't enabled. I double checked on the FB
website, though, and it looks enabled from where I'm sitting. Am I
doing something not right, or is there some sort of temporary
brokenness happening? For the record, I tested with another feedburner
feed (not mine, and only temporary), and it didn't break. Shows 0
subscribers, but I didn't get that error. Which leads me to believe I
might be missing something annoyingly minor. Anyone who has an idea,
your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Jonathan Wilde]

Thanks for asking!

What feed URL did you paste in? If you're using a WordPress plugin
like FeedSmith to redirect your blog's feed URL over to the FeedBurner
feed URL, I'd recommend double-checking that the plugin is set to use
the direct feed URL hosted at FeedBurner's servers that FeedSmith
redirects to, such as

<http://feeds.feedburner.com/example>

instead of the WordPress feed URL, such as

<http://www.example.com/feed>.

It's important to use the URL of the feed at FeedBurner's domain
because the plugin determines a feed's identity from a segment of that
URL. If the plugin receives a URL for a feed within WordPress, it
currently is unable to determine that piece of identifying
information.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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[webdev.andrei]

Hello Jonathan! I have the same problem and the is not a redirect.
Also, tried with your feed from feedburner and I'm having the same
result: "Unable to connect to FeedBurner (What does this mean?)". What
should I do? What PHP functions are necesssary to work?

Thank you!

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[webdev.andrei]

Found the problem! Your plugin needs to have sockets with ssl compiler
with PHP. I do not have it, but to overcome it I changed into
client.php line 112 from https protocol to http.

From
https://feedburner.google.com/api.....
To
http://feedburner.google.com/api.....

It works but you won't ssl between your hosting provider and
feedburner.

Hope this helps.

PS: I use your plugin on www.flexer.info.

[Jonathan Wilde]

Thanks!

I didn't realize that the Awareness API actually supported plain
non-encrypted HTTP requests. I'll have to add an option to retrieve
the stats via plain HTTP to allow for this configuration or maybe just
have the plugin switch to plain HTTP as a fallback automatically if
HTTPS doesn't work.

Thanks so much for trying out the plugin and determining the issue!
Jonathan

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