[newguy]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

No, a firewall should either allow something, or block something. It should not alter it.

Mine is getting altered.

Originally Posted by David LeBow

Just to wrap up my question: it turns out that the hoster was blocking access of this sort back out through the firewall. They've enabled access for the feeds I was after and it seems to work fine.

The problem above ("something not formatted correctly") might be related to something I saw once the feed worked. The default body template which is provided when creating a new feed needed a bit of work. Default is this:

PHP Code:

{feed:description}

[url={feed:link}]More...[/url] 


I added quotation marks so that the [url] tag didn't show up as [url] in the feed.

PHP Code:

{feed:description}

[url="{feed:link}"]More...[/url] 


I will try this and report back...