Message

'type/subtype' media type is not specific enough

Explanation

The web server is reporting an MIME type that is not specific enough for consumers to consistently identify it as a a feed. Although we tried to parse it as a feed, aggregators may well report this as an error and act as if the user had pointed them at something other than a feed.

Solution

RSS feeds should be served as application/rss+xml. Atom feeds should use application/atom+xml.

If this is not possible, make sure that one of the following set of markers is present in the first 512 bytes of your feed:

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