Magpie feed plugin for EE1 failing on https

Question

The Magpie plugin for EE1 doesn't seem to like https addresses, it was working fine but now the site where the feed is located have switched to https for everything and now Magpie is not getting new data. I tried changing the url in the template code but it fails completely, leading me to believe that it can't handle the secure address. Any options appreciated, I have 4 sites still on EE1 that can't afford to be updated to EE2.

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

The solution is simple, you must update the "Snoopy" class (HTTP client) in the pi.magpie.php file.

The last release of Snoopy can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/

You just have to make a copy-paste-replace and change the name of the class: M_Snoopy() instad of Snoopy.

Regards from France

Answer 2

For a quick work-around, you could write a quick PHP script that fetches the external URL over HTTPS and spits it back out over HTTP. You could save this as "https-workaround.php", and prepend the new HTTPS urls in your template with "http://yourdomain.example.com/some-folders/https-workaround.php?feed=" and you should be all set. If it throws an error, it could very well be the same PHP issue that's preventing the add-on from working, and, correcting it may fix it without the need for using this new script.

<?php
if(!isset($_GET['feed'])){
    echo "Error: no feed URL was provided. Please include the url of the feed you'd like to decode, e.g. " . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?feed=http://www.example.com/feed.xml" ;
    die();
}else{

    // Need this for XML or some services return data in a JSON format instead
    $context = stream_context_create(array(
        'http' => array(
            'method' => 'GET',
            'header' => "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"                               
        )
    ));

    // Grab the URL specified by ?feed= and fetch it with our HTML/XML only headers
    $fileContents = file_get_contents($_GET['feed'], false, $context);

    // Output the feed
    echo $fileContents;
}