Michael,
it's just a shoot into the dark without having a look at the code but is it possible that you are behind a firewall and your browser is using the correct http proxy to access the web but the RSSTicker component is not and therefore can't get an internet connection?
Oliver
Michael Wiedmann wrote:
While playing with <x:rssTicker> I noticed some problems in accessing
some RSS newsfeeds which I tracked down so far in suspected failure
of parsing RSS contents of some sites, e.g. Heise News (one of the
most important german - computer an internet related - online news
sites) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf.
It looks like "loadNews()" in "HtmlRssTicker.java" fails at line #107
"this._channel = (Channel)_digester.parse(string);" (this is a call in
"org.apache.commons.digester.rss.RSSDigester") with a message
like "No connection to internet...". This is definitely wrong because trying on the same system at the same
time accessing the RSS feed using an HTML browser (e.g. a recent version of Firefox) displays the RSS XML data without any problems.
Can anybody verify this or even supply a workaround or at least point me at the right place to "complain"?
Michael
PS:
-- Oliver Rossmueller Software Engineer and IT-Consultant Hamburg, Germany http://www.rossmueller.com
