CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidrss
bengaard
bengaard

Reputation: 121

Android - RSS reader: URL forced to mobile address

On the image you can see my origiginal URL for the RSS (http://www.fyens.dk/rss/sport) is changed to go to the mobile site (http://mobil.fyens.dk/modules/mobile). How can I avoid this? I can't read the RSS feed from the mobile site.

From the debug:

  try {

            URL url = new URL("http://www.fyens.dk/rss/sport");
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            if (conn.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();


                DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory
                        .newInstance();
                DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();


                Document document = db.parse(is);
                Element element = document.getDocumentElement();


                NodeList nodeList = element.getElementsByTagName("item");

                if (nodeList.getLength() > 0) {
                    for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {

The program jumps to a 

catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

when it reaches the line 

Document document = db.parse(is);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (1)

Nacho
Nacho

Reputation: 386

The site is most likely doing a redirection based on User Agent. You want to fool the site with a different user agent string.

Try doing:

conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "The user agent you want to use");

You will want to use a user agent string that corresponds to a desktop browser. Check this list: http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Chrome/

Upvotes: 1

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