diff --git a/htroot/Load_RSS_p.html b/htroot/Load_RSS_p.html
index db78b19bf..79249373b 100644
--- a/htroot/Load_RSS_p.html
+++ b/htroot/Load_RSS_p.html
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@
           </dl>
           <input type="submit" name="indexAllItemContent" value="Add All Items to Index (full content of url)" />
           #(/showload)#</dd>
-	      
+          #(showerrmsg)#::<dd class="error">#[msgtxt]#</dd>#(/showerrmsg)#   
         </dl>
       </fieldset>
     </form>
-
+    
 	#(showscheduledfeeds)#::
     <form id="scheduledfeeds" action="Load_RSS_p.html" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"><fieldset>
 	  <legend>List of Scheduled RSS Feed Load Targets</legend>
diff --git a/htroot/Load_RSS_p.java b/htroot/Load_RSS_p.java
index 3cb2a06fc..18a209da5 100644
--- a/htroot/Load_RSS_p.java
+++ b/htroot/Load_RSS_p.java
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ public class Load_RSS_p {
         prop.put("shownewfeeds", 0);
         prop.put("showscheduledfeeds", 0);
         prop.put("url", "");
-
+        prop.put("showerrmsg", 0);
+        
         if (post != null && post.containsKey("removeSelectedFeedsNewList")) {
             for (final Map.Entry<String, String> entry: post.entrySet()) {
                 if (entry.getValue().startsWith("mark_")) try {
@@ -276,6 +277,8 @@ public class Load_RSS_p {
             rss = resource == null ? null : RSSReader.parse(RSSFeed.DEFAULT_MAXSIZE, resource);
         } catch (final IOException e) {
             ConcurrentLog.warn("Load_RSS", e.getMessage());
+            prop.put("showerrmsg", 1);
+            prop.put("showerrmsg_msgtxt", "no valid response from given url");
             return prop; // if no response nothing to process further
         }