1 Topic by jvc (edited by jvc 2007-12-01 11:01:33)

  • jvc
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Topic: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

i just tried this twice and it worked for me:

Problem:
You want to get data from an XML feed but Flash can't get it because the site doesn't have a crossdomain.xml file.

Solution:
Feedburner has an open crossdomain.xml file and allows you to add any feed as your own

Steps:
1. Create a feedburner account
2. Add the feed you want (ex. http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/atom/hourly)
3. Use the feed path feedburner gives you as your xml source. (ex. http://feeds.feedburner.com/google/GoogleHotTrends)
4. Enjoy.

  • Registered: 2007-12-02
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Re: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

Another useful proxy I started using today is Yahoo Pipes. Gives you programmatic functionality as well. One thing to note; I couldn't find a crossdomain.xml file at first, but a bit of a search about, and I discovered that http://pipes.yahooapis.com has an open crossdomain.xml file, and can be dropped in place of any pipes.yahoo.com url (ie, http://pipes.yahoo.com/foo/bar becomes http://pipes.yahooapis.com/foo/bar). Seems to work pretty well!

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Re: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

Cool - thanks for the insight...

One other benefit of feedburner is the ability to get to password protected feeds.

For example I can set up a feed with feedburner in this format http://UserName:SuperSecretPass@whateverDomain.com/feedPath.xml

One thing to watch out for is to avoid tracking in Feedburner feeds as they insert tracking stuff that changes the feed. This is turned off by default though

  • Registered: 2007-12-02
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Re: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

Cool! Actually, Feedburner and Yahoo Pipes appear to work well together...each has some advantages, but you can always make a Feedburner feed out of a Pipe, so you can have the best of both worlds.

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5 Reply by rotozip (edited by rotozip 2008-02-02 19:29:19)

  • Registered: 2007-12-28
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Re: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

Any ideas on where/how I could proxy a non rss feed like this image url http://images.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dv … 2r69wc.jpg ?  I tried hooking up a solution on yahoo pipes with no success.  I was using my own php proxy script and cross domain file running on my web host but I would like to move it off of my site.

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Re: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

You don't need to proxy JPEG images - the sandbox applies to XML and SWF.

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Re: TIP: Use Feedburner as a Proxy

Duane wrote:

You don't need to proxy JPEG images - the sandbox applies to XML and SWF.

Thanks Duane that made it really easy.