[Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues

[David_S_Green at Dell.com]

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 at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of MHart

Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:06 AM

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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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