x:rssTicker fails

[Michael Wiedmann <mw...@miwie.in-berlin.de>]

While playing with <x:rssTicker> I noticed some problems in accessing
some RSS newsfeeds which I tracked down so far in suspected failure
of parsing RSS contents of some sites, e.g. Heise News (one of the
most important german - computer an internet related - online news
sites) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf. 

It looks like "loadNews()" in "HtmlRssTicker.java" fails at line #107
"this._channel = (Channel)_digester.parse(string);" (this is a call in
"org.apache.commons.digester.rss.RSSDigester") with a message
like "No connection to internet...". 
This is definitely wrong because trying on the same system at the same
time accessing the RSS feed using an HTML browser (e.g. a recent 
version of Firefox) displays the RSS XML data without any problems.

Can anybody verify this or even supply a workaround or at least
point me at the right place to "complain"?

Michael
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RE: x:rssTicker fails

[Matthias Wessendorf <ma...@matthias-wessendorf.de>]

Hi Michael,

> It might me a poblem of the RSS version this particularly RSS 
> feeds uses (RDF simple 0.9).

Yes, I guess this is the problem.
I used Digester's RSS_example.

Now there is a better lib out on Apache,
that guy I will use inside of <x:rssTicker/>.

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/feedparser/

might be better.

I will open a issue on our tracking-system on that.

Regards,
Matthias

> Michael
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Re: x:rssTicker fails

[Michael Wiedmann <mw...@miwie.in-berlin.de>]

Oliver Rossmueller <ol...@tuxerra.com> wrote:

> it's just a shoot into the dark without having a look at the code but is 
> it possible that you are behind a firewall and your browser is using the 
> correct http proxy to access the web but the RSSTicker component is not 
> and therefore can't get an internet connection?

Though this is exactly the detailed message I get from the component ("Are you
behind a firewall...") I doubt that this is correct. I don't use a proxy for
web access and can access other RSS feeds using <x:rssTicker>! 
It might me a poblem of the RSS version this particularly RSS feeds uses (RDF
simple 0.9).

Michael
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Re: x:rssTicker fails

[Oliver Rossmueller <ol...@tuxerra.com>]

Michael,

it's just a shoot into the dark without having a look at the code but is 
it possible that you are behind a firewall and your browser is using the 
correct http proxy to access the web but the RSSTicker component is not 
and therefore can't get an internet connection?

Oliver

Michael Wiedmann wrote:

>While playing with <x:rssTicker> I noticed some problems in accessing
>some RSS newsfeeds which I tracked down so far in suspected failure
>of parsing RSS contents of some sites, e.g. Heise News (one of the
>most important german - computer an internet related - online news
>sites) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf. 
>
>It looks like "loadNews()" in "HtmlRssTicker.java" fails at line #107
>"this._channel = (Channel)_digester.parse(string);" (this is a call in
>"org.apache.commons.digester.rss.RSSDigester") with a message
>like "No connection to internet...". 
>This is definitely wrong because trying on the same system at the same
>time accessing the RSS feed using an HTML browser (e.g. a recent 
>version of Firefox) displays the RSS XML data without any problems.
>
>Can anybody verify this or even supply a workaround or at least
>point me at the right place to "complain"?
>
>Michael
>PS: 
>  
>


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Oliver Rossmueller
Software Engineer and IT-Consultant
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.rossmueller.com