How do I read a secure rss feed into a SyndicationFeed without providing credentials?
- by John Kaster
For whatever reason, IBM uses https (without requiring credentials) for their RSS feeds. I'm trying to consume https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/roller-ui/rendering/feed/gradybooch/entries/rss?lang=en with a .NET 4 SyndicationFeed. I can open this feed in a browser and it loads just fine. Here's the code:
using (XmlReader xml = XmlReader.Create("https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/roller-ui/rendering/feed/gradybooch/entries/rss?lang=en"))
{
var items = from item in SyndicationFeed.Load(xml).Items
select item;
}
Here's the exception:
System.Net.WebException was unhandled by user code
Message=The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Source=System
StackTrace:
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at System.Xml.XmlDownloadManager.GetNonFileStream(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, RequestCachePolicy cachePolicy)
at System.Xml.XmlDownloadManager.GetStream(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, RequestCachePolicy cachePolicy)
at System.Xml.XmlUrlResolver.GetEntity(Uri absoluteUri, String role, Type ofObjectToReturn)
at System.Xml.XmlReaderSettings.CreateReader(String inputUri, XmlParserContext inputContext)
at System.Xml.XmlReader.Create(String inputUri, XmlReaderSettings settings, XmlParserContext inputContext)
at System.Xml.XmlReader.Create(String inputUri)
at EDN.Util.Test.FeedAggTest.LoadFeedInfoTest() in D:\cdn\trunk\CDN\Dev\Shared\net\EDN.Util\EDN.Util.Test\FeedAggTest.cs:line 126
How do I configure the reader to work with an https feed?
