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RE: invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

Jonathon McDougall — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:28:16 GMT

Also, if you are using NGES - NGES support would probably be a better place to ask (They don't really hang out here) - 1.4.2 has a different API than NewsGator Online.

RE: invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

Jonathon McDougall — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:26:36 GMT

You can't use the Chiclet for a credentialed feed - I don't think there really is a way to automatically add a feed that requires a username/password. You would have to manually add it.

RE: invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

L8erG8er — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:12:42 GMT

RE: "I would use the "chiclet" method instead as described on our support page (http://www.newsgator.com/support.aspx)"

I wasn't able to find any additional information regarding the "Chiclet" method on the support site, can you give a liitle more information about how to use this method, or supply a more direct link to the information regarding the use of this method.

Thank you,

L8erG8er

RE: invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

L8erG8er — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:04:45 GMT

Correction To Post:

Tried the similar method:

http://someserver.com/ngweb/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/business/rss.xml

I was missing the URL variable from the link above, so I retried the link above again with the correction shown below:

http://someserver.com/ngweb/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/business/rss.xml

This worked using an external feed without additional user interaction and displayed the message below:

Add Subscription
A new subscription to BBC News | Business | UK Edition has been added.

Manage My Feeds | Read Now

But this same link/method does not work for an Internal feed.

Add Subscription
Error - could not add subscription to http://someinternalserver.com/abc/rss/abchome.xml.

Manage My Feeds | Read Now

But I am able to add the internal feed above manually using the Add Feeds-URL tabbed page.

Thanks,

L8erG8er

RE: invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

L8erG8er — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:45:24 GMT

Tried the similar method:

http://someserver.com/ngweb/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/business/rss.xml

But it does not appear to work. I am taken to the Add Subscriptions page but nothing happens, this is what appears on the screen:

Add Subscription

Manage My Feeds | Read Now

And nothing else, if I click on My feeds, the feed has not been added. Also, it is worth mentioning, another reason for my implementation is to remove the additional step of clicking the "Add" button on the Add Subscriptions page when using a link to add subscriptions. The scenario I am trying to implement would have a user navigate to a site that has an RSS subscribe button, when the user clicks the subscribe button their subscription is added to their NG Reader without having to do/click anything else.

Is there a way to implement this?

Thank you,

L8erG8er

RE: invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

Nick Harris — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:43:23 GMT

I think that approach is rather difficult. How do you know what credentials to use?

I would use the "chiclet" method instead as described on our support page (http://www.newsgator.com/support.aspx)

A similar approach, but using this url - http://someserver/ngweb/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?[RSS_FEED_URL] - should work and handle the credential issue for you.

Does that work for you?

invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

L8erG8er — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:51:16 GMT

I am trying to create a .aspx page that GETs the URL for a feed from a url parameter, then adds a subscription for the user to that feed. I would like to use the AddSubscription method of the Subscriptions web service on my NGES (1.4.2). The reason I am getting the feed url as a url query parameter is because I would like for all internal web sites that would like to add RSS Feed subscription buttons to their sites to have their button hit my page with their feed url attached, my aspx page would then add the subscription for the user using the web service endpoint shown below:

http://someservername.com/ngws/svc/Subscription.asmx

Has anyone done this? Do you have some sample code on how to accomplish this? I'm having problems with the user credentials as well as how to send the SOAP packet/document, I've already figured out that a simple HTTP-POST of HTTP-GET will not work for AddSubscription.