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Ask HN: why Google can't fetch HN's RSS feed?

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Recently I found that on March, 13 http://www.cliws.com/ hosted on Google App Engine stopped to fetch HN's RSS feed located at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

http://www.cliws.com/ is RSS-reader like Google Reader but a bit better ;) It regularly checks various RSS-feeds, so from logs I can see exact date when Google stopped to download HN's RSS feed (it worked fine before).

I filled bug for this issue with example from App Engine remote shell: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7181

I wonder, may be something was changed on HN side on March, 13? What are other possible reasons for this strange issue?

More details about the problem: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=71...

Stack trace from the logs of http://www.cliws.com/ on App Engine:

  async response_handler xml_url=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/base/data/home/apps/s~cliwws/dev.357649535611989626/core/channel.py", line 106, in response_handler
    return handle_feed_response(channel, rpc.get_result())
  File "/base/python27_runtime/python27_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 592, in get_result
    return self.__get_result_hook(self)
  File "/base/python27_runtime/python27_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 365, in _get_fetch_result
    raise DownloadError(str(err))
  DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2

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