From 7f853df5817d468cee03334149ba448909b5f56f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex P <thealexpaxton@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 17:08:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Jared wrote this

---
 ui/src/status/actions/index.js | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ui/src/status/actions/index.js b/ui/src/status/actions/index.js
index 9d5d06201..c168090a7 100644
--- a/ui/src/status/actions/index.js
+++ b/ui/src/status/actions/index.js
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ export const fetchJSONFeedAsync = url => async dispatch => {
   dispatch(fetchJSONFeedRequested())
   try {
     const {data} = await fetchJSONFeedAJAX(url)
-    dispatch(fetchJSONFeedCompleted(data))
+    // data could be from a webpage, and thus would be HTML
+    if (typeof data === 'string' || !data) {
+      dispatch(fetchJSONFeedFailed())
+    } else {
+      dispatch(fetchJSONFeedCompleted(data))
+    }
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(error)
     dispatch(fetchJSONFeedFailed())