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Topic: Bug reports

[CLOSED] Embedding RSS in an external page

I am trying to embed the RSS from this group into a confluence based wiki but I end up getting this error.

rss: Unable to retrieve http://www.citeulike.org/rss/group/17329: Could not download: http://www.citeulike.org/rss/group/17329 - org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException: The host did not accept the connection within timeout of 10000 ms

This did not work either:

rss: Unable to retrieve http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc-rss/17329: Could not download: http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc-rss/17329 - org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException: The host did not accept the connection within timeout of 10000 ms

Does the rss address need to be in some other format? How can I get it to load on the external page properly?

Posted by Zephyrus on 2012-10-28 01:25:29.

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Paste those URLs into your browser and they work just fine.

Posted by fergus on 2012-10-28 08:41:53.

Yes, but why don't they work when embedded like this:

    {rss:url=http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc-rss/17329}
    {rss:url=http://www.citeulike.org/rss/17329}

Does this output have a version that ends in .xml, .rss or some such extension?

Posted by Zephyrus on 2012-10-29 06:15:44.

Sorry, I know nothing about Confluence.

Does this output have a version that ends in .xml, .rss or some such extension?

I doubt it, lots of RSS feeds don't. But in any case you're getting a connection timeout error.

What user-agent does Confluence use? A plain Java/HttpClient might be blocked our end (but it's blocked immediately, which shouldn't cause a timeout.)

Posted by fergus on 2012-10-29 09:41:07.

Just a follow-up to this. There is something wrong with the version of confluence (2.9) that causes it to hiccup when the RSS is included. It loads fine with later versions of confluence.

Posted by Zephyrus on 2012-11-06 20:22:01.

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