[NEW Plugin] RSS Reader

[MiDoS]

I try to fing function to decode message, but think I must do it myself. In nearest version it will be checked.

Edit list of feeds you may in properties of plugin (right button click on plugin in \\My Network, select properties)

[rolandd]

I might be totally off but in PHP (I can only program in PHP ) there is the function called html_entity_decode to take care of this. Maybe there is something similar in your language.

[djorge]

I think the best way to present the feed information to the user is the Quick-View panel with a specific lister plugin (new extension) to avoid the usual text plugins from being used.

With this new lister plugin made specific for the rss feeds, you coud trace which feed were already read by the user. With this information you could change the icon for the feeds already seen.

And, please add http proxy support... The plugin is useless for all of us who are behind proxys.

[MiDoS]

New version.

Proxy support
Background downloading feeds
Best work with tags

http://midos.boom.ru

[rolandd]

Hey Midos,

Thanks for the update, things are looking lots better

Here are my findings:
1. When I doubleclick an RSS article, it opens in my browser (which is fine), when I return to TC, I get the question if I want to reload. This is kind of annoying after every article
2. The reload screen shows only half of it, the other half is off screen on the right hand side.
3. When I view the article in my webbrowser (FF), I see author in the titlebar as <%author%> instead of the normal name. In TC, it is just empty (IEView)
4. I stil can't add new RSS feeds via the properties page

Regards,

RolandD

[MiDoS]

1,2. I'll fix it in next wersion
3. Strange, but Opera & FireFox don't hide user tags (like <%tag%>, I don't know why...
4. Try to press "Insert" key

[djorge]

I get the message "Can't connect"!!

I've configured the proxy with the right data.

[MiDoS]

What kind of proxy you using? This plugin has some trubles with UserGate.

[djorge]

Unfortunatly, i don't know such information.

[MiDoS]

Name of proxy usually write on error pages. Try to go to some wrong page (like http://thisaddresnotexist.not ) and decribe the error page.

Also, plugin don't work with socks proxy.

[djorge]

Good idea

The message generated with invalid address has the string "squid/2.5.STABLE1".

I think this is my proxy.

[djk]

Thanks for the plugin.
I wonder why the plugin doesn't sort the news correctly?
It gets it in the proper way (you can see it in the .ini file) but always displays them sorting by name.
Maybe it would be useful to add any index and sort the news by it.

[rolandd]

Hi there,

Thanks for the new release but it appears to have a few problems. When I QuickView the html file, it no longer formats it correctly but I see the HTML tags.

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Author: <a href="http://ghisler.ch/board/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5976" target="_blank">Valik</a><br />Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:11 am (GMT -6)<br /><br /><span class="postbody"></span>

Further, it no longer displays the amount of bytes read. As somebody else already stated. It would eb nice to have the filedates of the posts instead of the time they are retrieved.

With Enter, it no longer opens the file in my browser either

Regards,

RolandD

[MiDoS]

New wersion of this plugin now you can find at

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/rss_reader.html

[rolandd]

WOW

Cool to see the templates. Very good idea

Can you add language files? Then I can have it in Dutch

One problem still exists for me, the statusbar for downloading is still partially off screen. Other than that it runs like a well oiled machine