Been hammering Google a bunch for information. Maybe if I can change a setting in PHP to look for the proxy server? I'll keep googling, but if anyone already has experience with this, let me know! Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:00 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David_S_Green(a)Dell.com wrote: You can't tell MediaWiki that as MediaWiki doesn't have an RSS import feature. But you might check PHP's http client configuration (if any) and/or the particular methods that your custom extensions use to pull data. Use google to search for documentation? That's what I'd do. - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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 -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l