Cannot configure RSS zimlet

[Dirk]

I've tried adding my own feeds to the new (?) RSS feed reader in Zimbra 4.0GA without success.

The zimlet works fine on it's defaut settings, but when I enter an address in the preferences and try to load that, I get the message: "Unable to load RSS Feed: {address}"

The addresses I've tried are:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...t_page/rss.xml
http://www.theregister.com/headlines.rss

are these not valid forms? Has anyone else got it working?

[marcmac]

DId you add the domains you've listed to the proxyAllowedDomains in the config_template.xml and reconfigure the zimlet? Tomcat restart may be required.

[Dirk]

Funnily enough, I missed that phase out of the configuration! Adding those domains would be an admin function, right? But I thought the RSS feed reader was a user level tool. Shouldnt it be capable of configuring this access itself? Come to that, how could I know this was even needed.

Is there a way to open the rss reader so it can access any domain? if not it's basically useless unless its only purpose would be for use within a locked down environment.

I know it's not a core element, or perhaps even a supported one, but if it's shipped with the core distribution, I have this annoying habbit of expecting things to work

[marcmac]

Allowing arbitrary web fetches through the proxy is a bit of a security hole, which is why we have teh allowed domains thing in the first place - but adding * to the allowed domains might work.

[Dirk]

I'll give it a shot, thanks.