DataSet RSS

[ninjadeathmonkey]

I have a problem connecting to Digg's RSS feed from my application. I can connect just fine using IE or Firefox, but I get "Unable to connect to the remote server" error when running my app. Here's the code I'm using:

[COLOR=#0000CC]string[/color] rssLink = [COLOR=#CC0000]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml"[/URL][/color];
[COLOR=#0000CC]DataSet[/color] rssData = [COLOR=#0000CC]new DataSet[/color]();
rssData.ReadXml(rssLink);

I even try:

[COLOR=#0000CC]string[/color] rssLink = [COLOR=#CC0000]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml"[/URL][/color];
[COLOR=#0000CC]HttpWebRequest[/color] req = ([COLOR=#0000CC]HttpWebRequest[/color])[COLOR=#0000CC]WebRequest[/color].Create(rssLink);
[COLOR=#0000CC]DataSet[/color] rssData = [COLOR=#0000CC]new DataSet[/color]();
rssData.ReadXml(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());

I get the same problem. It either times out, or can't connect.

Any suggestions?

 

[SirPoonga]

I am having the same problem. Every other rss feed I try works.

 

[SirPoonga]

Isn't it funny, right after I replied here I found the answer. I've been looking for an answer for weeks.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/456dfw4f.aspx

Having found that I also found this which is how I am going to implement it.

http://www.istapledmycat.com/tutorials/csharp_xml_useragent.html

 

[ninjadeathmonkey]

Ok, I found out my problem. I had to spoof a User agent when connecting to Digg. I don't have to for any other site. lame.

Here's what I did:

rssLink = [COLOR=#CC0000]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml"[/URL][/color];
[blue]HttpWebRequest[/blue] req = ([blue]HttpWebRequest[/blue])WebRequest.Create(rssLink);
(([blue]HttpWebRequest[/blue])req).UserAgent = [COLOR=#CC0000]"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1"[/color];
[blue]DataSet[/blue] rssData = [blue]new DataSet[/blue]();
rssData.ReadXml(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());

Ron Wheeler

http://www.tekdev.com/

 

[SirPoonga]

I found you can put anything in the UserAgent. You just need to set it to something.