[Xerte] rss page

[Julian Tenney]

RSS

Wikipedia

Delicious 

 

All use rss_proxy.

 

The Youtube and flickr ones call their APIs 'properly'.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 10:43 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rss page

 

I didn't think that would work on a different server but I did copy
rss_proxy.php to the same location as my test file and used a similar
link but it didn't work.

 

I also tried debugging _level0.site_url thinking it would be possible to
extend the if statement and include rss_proxy.php for examples where
this is required.

 

Do any of the other page types require rss_proxy.php too?

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 14 September 2009 22:05
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rss page

 

I don't think so, as the flash security means you cannot make that
request directly from the Flash player. 

 

So something has to be in the middle. 

 

That could be a central service somewhere...?

 

Have you tried calling our
http://www.nottingham/toolkits/rss_proxy.php?rss=' +
pageIcon.templateData.rss[0].url?

 

I'd have to check that is something we can sustain.

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of RonM
Sent: Mon 14/09/2009 21:17
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] rss page

Hi Pat/Julian

This never occurred to me before but am I right in thinking that if an
LO created with the page templates contains an RSS feed page and is then
exported and uploaded to a vle or webserver e.g. outside of a toolkits
install then the RSS feed page won't work?

 

e.g. the rss.rlm has the following:

 

if (templatePath.indexOf('modules/xerte') == -1){

  feedURL = pageIcon.templateData.rss[0].url;

} else {

  feedURL = _level0.site_url + 'rss_proxy.php?rss=' +
pageIcon.templateData.rss[0].url;

}

 

I know the need for rss_proxy.php is due to the flash player security
and for the rss page to work online it needs to make use of
rss_proxy.php but I'm just wondering if there's a way of getting this to
work outside of toolkits. I tried adding a static path to rss_proxy.php
on the server where I uploaded a test and that didn't work. The same LO
works fine when run locally but is there a way of getting the rss page
to work when viewed online but outside of toolkits?

 

Cheers

Ron 

 

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