Ok, I've verified the curl extension is running. I am using 1.8.3 MediaWiki, and I put $wgHttpProxy = true; into my LocalSetting.php file. This is the extension I am using: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GISWiki/RSS My PHP is extremely weak (I am working on learning it now), so I can't tell if the feed supports it or not. Would appreciate any additional guidance you can give. Thanks! Dave -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:07 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues On 18/01/07, David_S_Green(a)dell.com <David_S_Green(a)dell.com> wrote: the Yes, at least assuming * You've got the curl extension installed (it's available and simple to install for Windows, Unix and Linux, so no real excuse) * You're running a fairly recent version of MediaWiki * The RSS feed uses the MediaWiki-provided methods for getting the data, which it quite possibly doesn't If all the above are satisfied, then setting $wgHttpProxy in LocalSettings.php should be adequate. Note: We don't support proxy authentication at present. This seems like a sensible enough thing to add, and isn't exactly difficult. Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Rob, Thanks for all the great info. I've sent everything that I can find in "Snoopy.class.inc", and I fixed $wgHttpProxy. Still no go....it just generates this error when I preview the page (local intranet feeds still pull fine): Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in F:\WebServer\GeCWiki\extensions\rss.php on line 159 And Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in F:\WebServer\GeCWiki\extensions\rss.php on line 228 I've been digging around the web with Google, but so far I'm not really find any other decent extensions. Dave -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:50 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues On 18/01/07, David_S_Green(a)dell.com <David_S_Green(a)dell.com> wrote: file. $wgHttpProxy needs to be set to the value of your proxy server. Well, that's coincidental - I was hacking up a later hacked-up copy of that damn extension the other day in order to iron out a couple of bugs for someone. As luck would have it, I've still got the magpie dependency files here, so I can examine them... Magpie's fetch_rss() function, which the extension uses to do most of the fetching and parsing, appears to use a third-party PHP HTTP fetching library called Snoopy. This *does* appear to support proxies, but it seems to use curl binaries, which may or may not be available. I can't see any straightforward way to set the proxy settings to Snoopy via Magpie or the extension itself, so I suspect you'll have to manually set this - it'll be in magpie/extlib/Snoopy.class.inc, near the top of the class definition. If this doesn't work out, then have another search around the web; there's more than one RSS aggregator extension for MediaWiki out there. Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l