> problem. You can see the feed validator complain about it here:
> <http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidj.org%2Frss.xml>
>
-> It's sorta unfortunate that [[cpan XML::Feed]] doesn't just assume the
+> It's sorta unfortunate that [[!cpan XML::Feed]] doesn't just assume the
> un-esxaped html is part of the description field. Probably other feed
> parsers are more lenient. --[[Joey]]
> Even if you start it more frequently, aggregation will only occur every
> `updateinterval` minutes (default 15), maximum. Does this explain what
> you're seeing? --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Crap, right, and my test update has since made it into the planet. His post still hasn't. So it must be something with David's feed again? A quick test with XML::Feed looks like it's parsing just fine: --[[schmonz]]
+
+ $ perl
+ use XML::Feed;
+ my $feed = XML::Feed->parse(URI->new('http://www.davidj.org/rss.xml')) or die XML::Feed->errstr;
+ print $feed->title, "\n";
+ for my $entry ($feed->entries) {
+ print $entry->title, ": ", $entry->issued, "\n";
+ }
+ ^D
+ davidj.org
+ Amway Stories - Refrigerator Pictures: 2008-09-19T00:12:27
+ Amway Stories - Coffee: 2008-09-13T10:08:17
+ Google Alphabet Update: 2008-09-11T22:55:37
+ Writing for writing's sake: 2008-09-09T23:39:05
+ Google Chrome: 2008-09-02T23:12:26
+ Mister Casual: 2008-07-25T09:01:17
+ Parental Conversations: 2008-07-24T10:44:44
+ Place Of George Orwell: 2008-06-03T22:11:07
+ The Raw Beauty Of A National Duolian: 2008-05-31T12:41:06
+
+> I had no problem getting the "Refrigerator Pictures" post to aggregate
+> here, though without a copy of the old feed I can't be 100% sure I've
+> reproduced your ikiwiki's state. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Okay, I blew away the cached entries and aggregator state files and reran the aggregator and all appears well again. If the problem recurs I'll be sure to post here. :-) --[[schmonz]]
+
+>>> On the off chance that you retained a copy of the old state, I'd not
+>>> mind having a copy to investigate. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> Didn't think of that, will keep a copy if there's a next time. -- [[schmonz]]
+
+-----
+
+In a corporate environment where feeds are generally behind
+authentication, I need to prime the aggregator's `LWP::UserAgent`
+with some cookies. What I've done is write a custom plugin to populate
+`$config{cookies}` with an `HTTP::Cookies` object, plus this diff:
+
+ --- /var/tmp/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/aggregate.pm 2010-06-24 13:03:33.000000000 -0400
+ +++ aggregate.pm 2010-06-24 13:04:09.000000000 -0400
+ @@ -488,7 +488,11 @@
+ }
+ $feed->{feedurl}=pop @urls;
+ }
+ - my $res=URI::Fetch->fetch($feed->{feedurl});
+ + my $res=URI::Fetch->fetch($feed->{feedurl},
+ + UserAgent => LWP::UserAgent->new(
+ + cookie_jar => $config{cookies},
+ + ),
+ + );
+ if (! $res) {
+ $feed->{message}=URI::Fetch->errstr;
+ $feed->{error}=1;
+
+It works, but I have to remember to apply the diff whenever I update
+ikiwiki. Can you provide a more elegant means of allowing cookies and/or
+the user agent to be programmatically manipulated? --[[schmonz]]
+
+> Ping -- is the above patch perhaps acceptable (or near-acceptable)? -- [[schmonz]]
+
+>> Pong.. I'd be happier with a more 100% solution that let cookies be used
+>> w/o needing to write a custom plugin to do it. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> According to LWP::UserAgent, for the common case, a complete
+>>> and valid configuration for `$config{cookies}` would be `{ file =>
+>>> "$ENV{HOME}/.cookies.txt" }`. In the more common case of not needing
+>>> to prime one's cookies, `cookie_jar` can be `undef` (that's the
+>>> default). In my less common case, the cookies are generated by
+>>> visiting a couple magic URLs, which would be trivial to turn into
+>>> config options, except that these particular URLs rely on SPNEGO
+>>> and so LWP::Authen::Negotiate has to be loaded. So I think adding
+>>> `$config{cookies}` (and using it in the aggregate plugin) should
+>>> be safe, might help people in typical cases, and won't prevent
+>>> further enhancements for less typical cases. --[[schmonz]]
+
+>>>> Ok, done. Called it cookiejar. --[[Joey]]