Problem setting RSS feeds to request though a proxy server
 

Hi all,

My host has recently changed the way they handle outbound HTTP requests and this has killed my RSS feeds. they told me that the fsockopen command will need to go through a proxy server.

I have been gettin the following error:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to feeds.feedburner.com:80 in /includes/class_rss_poster.php on line 85

Warning: Unable to fetch RSS Feed in /includes/class_rss_poster.php on line 212

I changed the following lines in the /includes/class_rss_poster.php

line 85:
$fp = fsockopen($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 5);

line 89:
$fp = @fsockopen($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 5);

to

line 85:
$fp = fsockopen($url['proxy.proxy.proxy.com.au'], $url['3128'], $errno, $errstr, 5);

line 89:
$fp = @fsockopen($url['proxy.proxy.proxy.com.au'], $url['3128'], $errno, $errstr, 5);

but still get an error on line 212. Any ideas?

Any help would be great.

Remove your new code and update $url['host'] and $url['port'] so that they correspond to your new settings.

You should have the following set before calling fsockopen:

The reason your new code is not working is because the variables $url['proxy.proxy.proxy.com.au'] and $url['3128'] do not exist. What I think you were trying to achieve is: fsockopen('proxy.proxy.proxy.com.au', '3128', $errno, $errstr, 5);

No luck i just get a

XML Error: mismatched tag at Line 5

which would be referring to this:

if (!isset($GLOBALS['vbulletin']->db))
{
exit;
}