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demond · Post by **demond** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:33 am

okie-dokie, version 1.5 supports HTTPS via SSL (if you experience https timeouts, try changing reqcert from yes:no to no:no)

please note that if the server requires certificate (very rarely for public access), you'll need to specify it as argument of [tls::socket]

maxm · Post by **maxm** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:10 pm

hi,
I tried the new version with this rss feed:
https://dream4ever.org/external.php?type=RSS2

but it always shows " rssnews-1.5: ERROR(#maxm): timeout. "

no matter using yes:no or no:no

Could you help me out? Thanks very much

De Kus · Post by **De Kus** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:49 pm

the certificate is for *.dreamz.org so you should use www.dreamz.org or something like that. Dont know if that can be a problem. however using that domain results in a 400 "bad request" error. Sounds like a messed up https server config.

demond · Post by **demond** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:11 pm

well, other than suggesting to increase the timeout value, I can't help you further; obviously that feed has connection problems, I've been able to load it into my browser just once from like 10 attempts

the server certificate shouldn't play any role here, even if invalid or expired, as long as you don't request it (set rssnews::reqcert no:no)

maxm · Post by **maxm** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:53 pm

increasing timeout value works. Thanks.

SaPrOuZy · Post by **SaPrOuZy** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:29 pm

http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?hwvUT ... alt=rss20a

doesn't seem to be working, nothing posted, and when trying to use !rss * i get , no news for this chan, eventhough i tried the script with other urls and it worked fine

demond · Post by **demond** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:10 pm

SaPrOuZy wrote:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?hwvUT ... alt=rss20a

doesn't seem to be working, nothing posted, and when trying to use !rss * i get , no news for this chan, eventhough i tried the script with other urls and it worked fine

works perfectly for me

PhiWi · Post by **PhiWi** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:11 am

Looks like a nice script to me

Right now I am using the rss tcl made by perplexa but it takes a lot of cpu..
This one is not really suitable for me, as I have a #news channel on my Network with aprox. 25 feeds added.
Would be great if support for more (or unlimited?) feeds per channel could be added.

demond · Post by **demond** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:06 am

I have no intention of developing this further (at least not now), but you can emulate multiple feeds on the same chan by specifying channame in mixed case, e.g. feeds(#news), feeds(#News), feeds(#nEws), etc.; however, that will work properly for announcements only

PhiWi · Post by **PhiWi** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:42 am

Too bad

But thanks, i´ll give it a try.

sarius · Post by **sarius** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:35 am

hi!

I've been using it for a while now and it works great. Thanks

However, I would like to request for a pub trigger that can make it go into and out of 'silent mode' (eg. !stoprss and !startrss). In silent mode, the bot will continue updating from the websites but will not display it in the channel.

I hope it's not too much trouble. Thanks again

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:42 am

sorry, I won't be developing my scripts any further - I lost interest in eggdrop scripting

but maybe somebody competent will be kind enough to take on from where I stopped and enhance my scripts even more, satisfying present and future user needs

woodsdog · Post by **woodsdog** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:27 pm

I've been using this script for a few months now, and I love it! Thanks Demond for making this available.

I have a quick question...Whenever I get a storie with double quotes (") in it, the bot spits out:

"

This also happens for other symbols. Single quote does seem to show up ok. Is this because I am using xchat? It's not a big deal, but I would like to clean it up.

Thanks

Woody

demond · Post by **demond** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:09 am

hmm that doesn't seem as valid HTML escape to me... or maybe it really is, I'm no HTML expert

try adding " and \x22 to the variable html at script's end

woodsdog · Post by **woodsdog** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:26 pm

Thanks Demond..That cleared it up. They are looking really good now..no wierd obnoxious stuff in there now.

Woody

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