for HTTP Monitor, I use the Net tab in Firebug or the Tamper Data firebug extension. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Alex Barth <alex@developmentseed.org> wrote:
After getting a report that
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&hl=ar&q=سوريا&cf=all&output=rss
is not properly downloading with Feeds module, I dug deep and discovered that cURL and drupal_http_request() return an RSS feed with no items, while wget and PHP stream_get_contents() do return a full RSS feed with a number of items.
Details here: http://drupal.org/node/689552
I am unsure what is actually causing this peculiar behavior and I would appreciate people's input. The issue affects not just Feeds but any other Drupal module that downloads and processes Google News RSS feeds - including core aggregator.
- This seems to be an issue where Google News decides, based on some request parameters, what content to return and what not - or am I missing something? - The user agent is the same in cases where the issue occurs and where it doesn't, I am using the same machine for all tests - what else could Google use to distinguish my requests? - Any tips on an 'HTTP monitor' I could be using to actually monitor outgoing HTTP requests from my local machine?
Alex Barth http://www.developmentseed.org/blog tel (202) 250-3633