Consuming RSS Feeds using RSS WebPart
You might be wondering why this guy is blogging about configuring a RSS WebPart in SharePoint to consume a RSS feed. Is it very straight-forward? Not if your SharePoint server requires proxy server to access the Internet... So what do you need to do?
You need to specify the proxy server in the Web.Config, using the System.Net element. Below are the steps in accomplishing that...
1. Open up the web.config file
2. Look for the xml node <system.net>
3. There should be a <defaultProxy> xml node inside <system.net>. If you don't, create that.
4. There should be a <proxy> xml node inside <defaultProxy>. If you don't, create that.
5. If you have a autoDetect="True" attribute, remove that.
6. Add the following attributes to the <proxy> xml node.
7. Save the web.config, and you are ready to go.