Hi Kent, Syndic8 uses a custom user agent string and I had no trouble submitting the Google feeds last week, such as:
http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=421532 http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=421534 Jeff; On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:40:20 -0700 (PDT), "Kent Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hmm maybe you are right. But in a browser you don't > need to be logged in to read the feed. > > I know for a fact that if I login in using the google > api it will work, but it seems a bit overboard and > unneccesarily secure. In my experience Google is > always afraid of scrapers and zealously blocks clients > it can't recognise, and now they have gone and made an > implementation unfriendly to news aggregetors. Maybe I > am way off base, but I would have a hard time > understanding how a news aggregator could read these > feeds unless a) they access with the google api or b) > they masqueraded the client as mozilla, firefox, > opera, or ie, c) set up some sort of logged in > connection. > > --- Joseph Becher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 403... Are you sure you don't need to login into > > your google account to view > > the feed? > > > > On 8/21/05, Kent Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > that's my problem I am not using a browser, I am > > using > > > a program that I wrote, and I am wondering if any > > > other news aggregetor programs will also have > > problems > > > reading those feeds. > > > > > > --- Tara Calishain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > At 08:20 AM 8/21/2005, you wrote: > > > > >After all the fanfare that Google would start > > to > > > > use > > > > >feeds for google news, it seems that unless you > > > > mask > > > > >your client as mozilla or ie (or another > > approved > > > > >client), you can't access them. I keep getting > > > > >HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden > > > > > > > > > >I wonder if they have a list of approvated > > > > aggregators > > > > >or something. google only says "Important: you > > > > must > > > > >use a feed reader in order to subscribe to > > website > > > > >feeds." > > > > > > > > > >does anyone know more about this? > > > > > > > > Um, what browser are you using? 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