Guard against serialization errors + other fixes
Guard against a class of errors seen in live use by:
- Letting feedparser handle URL opening itself
- Ignoring ValueError raised while populating the cache
Bug: T342803
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Guard against a class of errors seen in live use by:
Bug: T342803