I'm trying to read a RSS generated by wordpress with full text activated. On firefox and IE9 an item data contains the element content:encoded
:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[bla bla bla]]></content:encoded>
but when in a C# program I request the same rss url this node is not present. I do my C# request like this:
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
client.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/xml");
var xml = client.DownloadString(url)
Does I have to add an header to the request to have this specific field?
You don't need WebClient to download rss.
XDocument wp = XDocument.Load("http://wordpress.org/news/feed/");
XNamespace ns = XNamespace.Get("http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/");
foreach (var content in wp.Descendants(ns + "encoded"))
{
Console.WriteLine(System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode(content.Value)+"\n\n");
}
EDIT
The problem is related with compression. If the client doesn't support compression, then server doesn't send contents.
WebClient web = new WebClient();
web.Headers["Accept-Encoding"] = "gzip,deflate,sdch";
var zip = new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(
web.OpenRead("http://www.whiskymag.fr/feed/?post_type=sortir"),
System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Decompress);
string rss = new StreamReader(zip, Encoding.UTF8).ReadToEnd();
I'm guessing Wordpress is choosing the "wrong" output format based on your Accept
header. Which feed is used is decided in /wp-content/feed.php
:
$types = array(
'rss' => 'application/rss+xml',
'rss2' => 'application/rss+xml',
'rss-http' => 'text/xml',
'atom' => 'application/atom+xml',
'rdf' => 'application/rdf+xml'
);
so instead of text/xml
, try accepting application/rss+xml
.