What can I say? My editors made me do it. I hadn't initially planned on building anything around RSS. I'm glad they did because after looking around, there's a lot more information out there being fed by RSS than by JSON feeds. I figured the digital world had advanced a little more than it really had. So, Usha, thank you for making me include this.
First things first, if we don't use a server-side proxy, we will crash right into the unforgiving wall of the same-original policy. Examples include cURL in PHP systems, Apache HTTP Core Components in Java, or something like HttpWebRequest on .Net.
Following is the page I created in PHP to leverage cURL to grab the Ars Technica feed. The source for this file is in ars.php in the chapter code bundle.
<?PHP
//based on original example from…
//http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/curl-example.htm
//is cURL installed yet?
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');
}
// OK cool. Then...