Redirect tag

I have recently redirected my podcast URL using the Tags:
"<itunes:new-feed-url>http://www.creativesweettv.com/MDG/Creative%20Sweet%20TV/rss.xml</itunes:new-feed-url>"
The redirect works when I test it directly into itunes however the iTunes store seem to be failing.
It tell me the feed URL cannot be found on the server. It seems to have picked up the new URL but cant find it. Its there; and it works. Could someone please take a look?
The Video podcast link is on
http://www.creativesweettv.com/sweet.html ( new feed )
On the itunes store seach for : Creative Sweet TV this fails.
I fear I am losing many subscribers.

A few guesses-
Is your old feed still able to be accessed by iTunes? If it has been taken down, the store will not be able to see the new feed tag in the first place, and nothing will work - put it back up if you have taken it down.
Here's what Feed Validator has to say about it. You need to add a "type" portion to each of your enclosure tags, for one thing. Try type="video/mp4" or type="video/quicktime". Fix your category tag (new category listings are found in the podcasting tech spec).
Also, when I subscribed to your feed, iTunes told me that it couldn't find a URL (which ends in "/Creative Sweet TV/rss.xml"). Spaces! If none of the things above fix your issue, maybe you should check to make sure that iTunes can deal with the format of your URLs.
Peach

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     </servlet-mapping>I am using the Resin server and mapped the application URL to localhost:8080/MyApp
I have a welcome file: index.jsp and all it does is redirect the request to a new URL, because I am serving the rest of my JSP's from under WEB-INF.
By the way, is there value in having the JSP under WEB-INF?
Back to my issue, in index.jsp I redirect like this:
     <body>
          <c:redirect url="/HomePage.php" />
     </body>The Spring controller grabs the "*HomePage.php*" part of the redirect even though when I print the requestURI it comes out as MyApp/HomePage.php
It then takes me to HomePage.jsp, and this page has a form, but for some reason, in the action attribute of the form, I can't put */processForm.php* - then the container cannot find it.
Instead, I have to say action="/MyApp/processForm.php".
Why is it possible to just say /HomePage.php in the redirect from index.jsp, but in the form I must put the MyApp in front?
Thanks.

Why is it possible to just say /HomePage.php in the redirect from index.jsp, but in the form I must put the MyApp in front?The tricky bit to get your head around is that "/" can mean different things at the server end and client end.
At the server end (for RequestDispatcher purposes) "/" refers to your context root - ie: http://localhost:8080/MyApp/
At the client end, / refers to http://localhost:8080/. The client knows nothing about the "context root" at all.
So any urls that you generate to your page that use absolute references have to take the context path into account.
This affects links, redirects, form actions etc - anything that will be executed by the client.
To answer your question, the difference is the tags you are using.
The <c:redirect> tag will automagically ADD the application name onto the front of a url.
So <c:redirect url="/HomePage.php"> will ACTUALLY generate a redirect to /MyApp/HomePage.php. Its part of the tags functionality to do this.
I am presuming you have
<form action="/processForm.php">
Because this is just template text, it won't take the context root into account. So possible solutions to the issue are:
// hard code it
<form action="/MyApp/processForm.php">
// add it onto every url dynamically:
<form action="<%= request.getContextPath() %>/processForm.php">
or
<form action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/processForm.php">
// use a tag library to do it for you
<form action="<c:url value='/processForm.php'/>">
// use a framework to generate a form tag
<stripes:form .... >Hopefully that helps you understand the issue a bit more
cheers,
evnafets

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