I have added to parss server both, RSS feed autodetection as well as a HTTP redirect follower. Strange enough, it was kind of tricky but hopefully I found a reasonable solution.

Nevertheless, currently there are some troubles caused by the modified Xml-Rpc handling in helma. Hopefully, these issues will be fixed, soon...

Because the helma.Http library allows setting the socket and request timeout values I decided to stop using AntvilleLib's http library and hopefully boost the scheduled retrieval of remote feed data. So far it's looking very promising.

A minor change in app.properties is necessary if you are connecting via a proxy: replace all proxy.dot settings with one single line containing your proxy host and port:

proxy = proxy.host.dom:3128

(to disable the proxy simply comment it out, no need for setting proxy.enabled = false, anymore.)