No, it seems my problem is that our corporate proxy server isn't
honoring requests from the RSS extension (or that the extension isn't
even trying to use the proxy in the first place) when it tries to pull
in an external feed (say a CNN rss feed for example). It is fine with
any internal feeds, as it doesn't have to make a proxy request.
My question was whether there was a way that MediaWiki (or the
extenstion, etc) to use the proxy server? So is there a way to have the
RSS feed go "hey this is an external request, go through the proxy".
Dave
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of MHart
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:06 AM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall
issues
What do you mean by "getting the wiki to see an external RSS source"?
Do you mean that external RSS readers can't see your wiki's feed?
MediaWiki
doesn't read external sources... but if you want an external feed
reader
(e.g. Google or Yahoo) to see your wiki, then you need an intermediate
page
that can be seen outside your intranet BUT can also read your intranet.
What we did is create a PUSH script that sends the RSS text to a server
that
sits in a DMZ. That server then has a URL that external feed readers can
use
to retrieve that text. The server in the DMZ can't read the RSS directly
because of the DMZ - although we could certainly open the firewall to
allow
it. However, we decided it was far safer to prevent a server in the DMZ
from
accessing the intranet, although it is open the other way around
(intranet
servers can access the DMZ server).
- MHart
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