No News is Good News - Isn't It ?
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I'm not getting any news feeds, which made me realise that I have no idea how RSS works - so I can't think where, who or what to ask - except here :confused: I get my news in my browser (firefox), the various feeds & their items appear in the sidebar (All In One) via an extension called Feed Sidebar. When I see something interesting that says "would you like our RSS feed" I click it and this other extension LiveClick comes into play and creates the appropriate bookmark - at least that's what I think it does Now you might think that someone else must have set this up for me, but they didn't I just followed my nose and cobbled it together - It worked and has been for a few years now - but its stopped None of the associated firefox extensions have been updated (Feed Sidebar was the most recent - 31Aug, Live Click was 24 Aug as was AIOS - that's when 3.5 came out) Any idea what the problem might be or who to ask - it can't be the providers, there's 30 odd of them - they can't all have gone off the air. Theres a refresh button in feed sidebar - it shows that it cycles through the 30 odd feeds and says its updating them - but it does not get anything I'm thinking firewall - anyone know what protocol RSS uses and what ports its uses - very weird having something on your computer that you don't really understand how it works - now I know how ordinary folk feel all the time. :doh: edit - everything else is working fine, mail, browsing, tortoise to sourceforge, newgroups, even torrents, and I did some ftp and some skype calls too - just the news feeds are not working
"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya
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I'm not getting any news feeds, which made me realise that I have no idea how RSS works - so I can't think where, who or what to ask - except here :confused: I get my news in my browser (firefox), the various feeds & their items appear in the sidebar (All In One) via an extension called Feed Sidebar. When I see something interesting that says "would you like our RSS feed" I click it and this other extension LiveClick comes into play and creates the appropriate bookmark - at least that's what I think it does Now you might think that someone else must have set this up for me, but they didn't I just followed my nose and cobbled it together - It worked and has been for a few years now - but its stopped None of the associated firefox extensions have been updated (Feed Sidebar was the most recent - 31Aug, Live Click was 24 Aug as was AIOS - that's when 3.5 came out) Any idea what the problem might be or who to ask - it can't be the providers, there's 30 odd of them - they can't all have gone off the air. Theres a refresh button in feed sidebar - it shows that it cycles through the 30 odd feeds and says its updating them - but it does not get anything I'm thinking firewall - anyone know what protocol RSS uses and what ports its uses - very weird having something on your computer that you don't really understand how it works - now I know how ordinary folk feel all the time. :doh: edit - everything else is working fine, mail, browsing, tortoise to sourceforge, newgroups, even torrents, and I did some ftp and some skype calls too - just the news feeds are not working
"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya
There's nothing really special about rss - it's just an xml file hosted on a web server, and is just downloaded over the web using exactly the same systems as an html page - if you've got the url for a feed, just open it in firefox and look at the source.
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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There's nothing really special about rss - it's just an xml file hosted on a web server, and is just downloaded over the web using exactly the same systems as an html page - if you've got the url for a feed, just open it in firefox and look at the source.
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
Thanks that gave me a couple of ideas - I understand firewalls, routers, compilers, database, tp monitors etc - but this web stuff makes me yawn - its all a bit a lash up IMO, everything seems to be cobbled together with string & sealing wax, its handy though. I just subscribed to a new feed in FX and even tho' there were about 20 current items nothing came though. Switched the feed over to Outlook and they all came up immediately. Then I copied an existing feed into Outlook, yesterdays and todays news came through. So its got to be something in firefox or one of the extensions - but nothing changed, except I did install and uninstall an extension yesterday, it had nothing to do with RSS but it did something with bookmarks, which is how feeds are stored - I suspect it vandalised something when I uninstalled it, maybe the bookmarks database? But I'm not sure that I wouldn't prefer to have the RSS feeds in Outlook anyway; the previews present better and the delete button works better. Thanks at least I now know where to look - I was even wondering whether it might be the ISP or something to do with the stolen Gmail & Hotmail passwords.
"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya
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Thanks that gave me a couple of ideas - I understand firewalls, routers, compilers, database, tp monitors etc - but this web stuff makes me yawn - its all a bit a lash up IMO, everything seems to be cobbled together with string & sealing wax, its handy though. I just subscribed to a new feed in FX and even tho' there were about 20 current items nothing came though. Switched the feed over to Outlook and they all came up immediately. Then I copied an existing feed into Outlook, yesterdays and todays news came through. So its got to be something in firefox or one of the extensions - but nothing changed, except I did install and uninstall an extension yesterday, it had nothing to do with RSS but it did something with bookmarks, which is how feeds are stored - I suspect it vandalised something when I uninstalled it, maybe the bookmarks database? But I'm not sure that I wouldn't prefer to have the RSS feeds in Outlook anyway; the previews present better and the delete button works better. Thanks at least I now know where to look - I was even wondering whether it might be the ISP or something to do with the stolen Gmail & Hotmail passwords.
"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya
urbane.tiger wrote:
but nothing changed, except I did install and uninstall an extension yesterday
Bloody users!! :laugh:
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