enabling external rss feeds

sharepoint v3 has the nice ability to display rss feeds via web parts... but there is a potential problem

most rss feeds people care about are external, meaning outside the company's intranet.

in order to allow your sharepoint server external access you may have to add a proxy for iis so it can reach the outside internet.

to do this you must edit the web.config file for the appropriate virtual server.

warning: make a backup of your web.config before modifying

add this line toward the bottom of your web.config, but before the closing </configuration>. also you should probably do a CTRL+F and look for the word proxy in your web.config... you want to make sure if you already have settings in there that they don't conflict.

   <system.net>

      <defaultProxy>

         <proxy usesystemdefault="false" proxyaddress="https://yourproxyhere" bypassonlocal="true" />

      </defaultProxy>

   </system.net>

this should not require a restart of iis.... iis will pickup on the change automatically. try that apache. ;)

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2011
  The proxy also needs to accept anonymous requests, as SP doesn't appear to attempt to authenticate when using proxies.