Bad http result code 501 when submitting a validated feed to iTunes

I have a podcast feed that I've validated at http://validator.w3.org as well as http://www.feedvalidator.org. Both tests say that my feed is valid. When I try to submit the feed URL to iTunes, I get the response: "We had difficulty reading this feed. Bad http result code: 501". Any suggestions as to what I'm missing?

Although your feed validates, and can be accessed in a browser and subscribed to in iTunes - and also the media files are correctly hosted on a server which can handle byte-range requests (a required facility) - the server hosting your feed is for some reason unable to handle requests specifically from the iTunes Store. This situation has arisen before but no obvious solution has been suggested (one poster with a similar problem found that it was a permissions issue on the server). This is something you will need to take up with the people running your server - their logs may possibly give some indication of what the problem is.

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Your feed can be subscribed to manually in iTunes (from the 'File' menu) and looks OK. However, it requires a secure connection (https) and it may be this which is upsetting the Store (which is a different connection from using the iTunes application to subscribe). You are hosting your feed on Dropbox: I would strongly recommend not doing this: Dropbox is designed for sharing, not website hosting, and is liable to cause you problems. You should use an ordinary web hosting service.
You should also ensure that the server hosting the media files can handle 'byte-range requests' (Dropbox appears not to) - this is where only part of the file is requested at a time and is necessary for iOS devices. If the server cannot handle it your podcast will be rejected, so you need to check with any proposed hosting service before committing yourself. If they don't do it, or don't know what it is, go somewhere else.
Your episode appears to consist of a very short technical test. The Store won't accept this: you need to have at least one real episode so that they can assess the sort of content you are going to provide.

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I've done everything up to this point: validate XML, manually subscribe through iTunes.
I'm at Submit Podcast to iTunes Directory
1. Podcast feed URL: http://www.thelambschapel.org/TLC_AudioPodcast.xml.
I get: Bad http result code: 403
The file permissions are 655. How can I get beyond this? Thx.
p.s. the only reason I am submitting the podcast is because our podcast of 3+ years dropped off the directory, so I'm trying to make the name slightly different in order to get it listed on the directory again. I changed the name of the XML file, and inside the file, I changed the <title>. The URL stays the same.

The feed seems to be OK - it can be subscribed to manually in iTunes and works fine there.
The 403 error means 'Access forbidden': one way of getting this is trying to access a directory (ending a URL with a slash) when there is no index.html file present, so if for example you had accidentally added a slash to the end of the URL when submitting it that would probably be the result.
If you are sure that you submitted the URL correctly it's difficult to see what the problem is. Sometimes servers don't react properly to a request from the iTunes Store when requests from the iTunes application and other rss readers work fine. You would need to take this up with the people running your server. Possibly they have a log which will show what happened.

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I just created a feed that validates.
Testing in iTunes works.
When I submit to iTunes I get this error. I can't for the life of me figure this out! Any ideas?
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The feed seems to be OK - it can be subscribed to manually in iTunes and works fine there.
The 403 error means 'Access forbidden': one way of getting this is trying to access a directory (ending a URL with a slash) when there is no index.html file present, so if for example you had accidentally added a slash to the end of the URL when submitting it that would probably be the result.
If you are sure that you submitted the URL correctly it's difficult to see what the problem is. Sometimes servers don't react properly to a request from the iTunes Store when requests from the iTunes application and other rss readers work fine. You would need to take this up with the people running your server. Possibly they have a log which will show what happened.

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When you submitted your URL, did you submit http://rss.mac.com/cjonesva/iWeb/wow/WOWPod/rss.xml? This is the URL to your feed - the itpc://rss.mac.com/cjonesva/iWeb/wow/WOWPod/rss.xml URL is for giving people a one-click link that will subscribe them to your feed in iTunes.

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