Category: Podcasts
Episode 107 is up
Episode 106 is up!
We’re going to Blizzcon!
We got an email asking about how easy alchemy is
Our new (possible) minicasts
Starman was on Rawrcast!!
Raiding
- Hardest bosses in ICC
- Thoughts on the 30% buff
- Cataclysm raiding
Listener emails
Episode 105 is up
Lindyen rejoins us as the new co-host of the show.
- Our podcast feed URL is fixed! Thanks @askbuxley!
- Insane in the Membrane
- Making money using jewelcrafting
- Starcraft 2 is released!
- Future topics on Warcast
- Razer Naga vs. the Logitech G13
Podcast URL feed fixed!
This morning, I wrote a polite email to Steve Jobs asking for some kind of help in getting my podcast URL fixed. I spent weeks trying to get it done from the outside, so I figured I’d try and get the URL fixed from the top down. I didn’t expect an immediate response, but as time ticked on today, I realized that the feed was never going to get fixed. I never heard back from Steve, nor did I expect to. I was that desperate, though.
Just when I was about to give up and add a new podcast feed to iTunes, @askbuxley came to the rescue and got in touch with a friend of his at Apple that fixed the podcast URL for me. Thanks so much to Buxley for that.
You may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to fix the URL if you were only able to see up to episode 103, but if you have 104 in your feed list, you’re golden.
Feed and site updates
Hi all,
You’re probably wondering why the site has reverted to what it looked like 18 months ago, and why the XML feed is borked. We moved to Blogspot because Alachia was familiar with it and she did more writing than I did. I put in a redirect into index.html so that the only thing that would happen is that visitors to the main site would get redirected, and it wouldn’t affect any of the site’s subdomains. If I were to do an entire site redirect (eg: forwarding all of worldofwarcast.com to blogspot.com), then it would break everything.
About a week ago, iTunes somehow took that redirect and used it internally. I have no idea how or why.
So, it’s like this:
http://www.worldofwarcast.com got changed to http://warcastpodcast.blogspot.com/
Please note the / at the end of the blogspot URL.
iTunes then replaced the one URL with the other, so the feed URL:
http://www.worldofwarcast.com/podcast.xml
became
http://warcastpodcast.blogspot.com//podcast.xml
The blogspot URL had a / at the end of it, whereas the warcast URL did not, so an extra / got added before podcast.xml.
The reason why we’re getting Error 400′s from that URL is because Google/Blogspot treats the // before podcast.xml as a badly formed URL. Also, Blogspot no longer allows users to manage a .htaccess file, so I have no way of fixing this on my end. If Blogspot didn’t treat the // as bad form, I could set up a missing files table to point to the right file on worldofwarcast.com (and I did), but I have to fix it on Blogspot’s servers.
So this is where I am now: iTunes has an internal bad URL that I can’t fix. I have no control over that file inside iTunes, and I can’t fix the Error 400 because Blogspot doesn’t allow you to. That means the XML URL in iTunes is in limbo.
I’ve written up two tickets to Apple, and posted on both Google’s and Apple’s support forums asking for help from someone. I know that there are times when Apple employees have fixed URLs for people, but if this doesn’t get fixed properly, that means I’ll have to scream at Apple a little louder, or email Steve (and yes, I will do that to get this fixed). The worst case scenario is I create a new podcast on iTunes with a slightly different title. I shouldn’t have to do this. iTunes has a “delete my podcast” form, why don’t they have a “fix my podcast” form?
In the meantime, if you have a running subscription to the show, you’re golden. If you need to subscribe on a new system, you’ll have to manually subscribe to the link at the bottom of this article. Until this gets fixed, iTunes will continue to show the feed up until the last known good episode which is 103, and episode 104 is out. If you’re looking at the feed from an iPad or an iPhone using iTunes, you won’t see anything past episode 103.
One of the biggest problems I have with Blogspot is that you have no control over anything that resembles running a real site. You can’t upload anything except pictures, and if something odd goes wrong with your site (like what happened to me), there are very limited tools to help fix it. If this happened to something I hosted myself, I could have fixed it in 10 seconds, or called someone at my hosting company. There’s nobody to call at Google. I think the best Google offers is a custom 404 and a 301 redirect, but the 301 doesn’t help fix the Error 400 since it has to get past that first, and can’t.
For now, I’m going to have to leave this site as is. You can still get to the old Blogspot blog from the link at the bottom of this article, but I think that URL redirection in this case is something that’s going to have to go away. I don’t like not having control over the content, and in this case, it’s preventing people from accessing the show.
Feed URL: http://www.worldofwarcast.com/podcast.xml
Blogspot URL: http://warcastpodcast.blogspot.com
Episode 80 is up
Everyone’s favorite pink princess joins us for another fun-filled episode. No, she doesn’t swear.
Christy from AHG joins us
What’s with Death Knights?
What to Death Knights offer?
Christy’s ready for 3.1
Should you merge your account with Battle.net?
Gear changes to Battlegrounds and Arenas
Mage changes in 3.1
Blizzard takes twinking away
Some 3.1 news
Blizzcon ’08
Hi all. I don’t have a ton of time to write. It’s 8;30 PST and I’m still trying to organize the day. Yesterday was a whirlwind, I don’t think today will be any less. I spent the first part of my day here napping since I’d been up since 4am EST. I got on line for my ticket and waited for a little over an hour. It wasn’t bad, the line moved pretty quickly. I finally met up with Shawn Coons from How I WoW and on the way back to the hotel, I got a call from Molly from Women of Warcraft with whom I went out to dinner with. After that, drinks with Shawn and Patrick from How I WoW, Randy from The Instance, and Molly. Pictures are up here. Check back for more stuff later.
Episode 69: Pally roundtable and a new logo!
It took weeks, but we finally got episode 69 scheduled and edited. Whew! Thanks to all our Paladins that helped put the roundtable together.
We also have a new logo! Renata’s friend Damien Shamahan (Shamination on the boards) made a bitchin’ new logo for is. Thanks, Damien! We also have the new logo on items in the World Of Warcast Store.

Episode 68 is up
Starman’s going to Blizzcon
Starman goes mage horde. Again.
Coming back to the game after a break
Competitor’s Tabards
Blizzcon
Recruit-A-Friend
Wrath of the Lich King:
- Glyphs (Inscribing)
- Hunter Pets
Newbie Tips
iTunes or Direct Link
Episode 66 is up
Blizzard Authenticators
Midsummer Festival
Renata vs. the G15 keyboard
Diablo III
Patch 2.4.3 notes
Mod of the Cast – Mob Info II
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