thanks andy

doh. i suddenly feel quite stupid. i should have looked at the source
before posting.

i suppose it's off topic now, but is there a newsreader out there that
does a scheduled rss grab then dumps to a local file?

Andy Dingley <dingbat@c...> wrote:
> digger440uk wrote:
> > I was using http://feeds.feedburner.com/reuters/worldNews/ to obtain
> > the rss feed of world news from Reuters. I was running a vb.net app
> > that would grab the file every 15 minutes, do some manipulation and
> > then thump the data into mysql. Now feedburner have blocked direct
> > access to the feed and advise me to download a newsreader.
>
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/reuters/worldNews/
> is still returning the raw RSS to me (Firefox). They've also stuck a
> client-side stylesheet on top of it, so that your browser's default
> presentation of it will be in HTML, not as raw RSS.  However I still
> have just as much programmatic "access" to the RSS content as ever.
>
> >Is there a solution where i can run a newsreader on my server and that dumps the rss
>
> Try playing with different user-agent strings in your feed reader
> client, ones that don't look like well-known web browsers.