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Originally Posted by bunanson View Post
The fox links are outrage fake links listed by the Fox The link showed up as a link, and when clicked on it, it turned into a page showing all kind of exciting titles, period. They are one line title, very fancy tilte, but there is no content! What kind of web page they are pulling!

Have not looked at the CNN. Still puzzling what kind of trick FOX is trying to pull, show people that they are interested in internet audience but do not what to give out media free?

A few of the links does have contents, but there is enough fake links to discourage for further pursuit. I guess you probably hit the few that has real contents.

bun
HAHAHA! I see you hit the same conundrum I did. Well, here's how I solved it. Fox isn't hiding their links. What they're doing is they're hiding their RSS feed in a specific format that's not viewable directly by a browser. If you view it from a browser, it looks like a lot of lines of useless text, or false links, but nothing you can click on. But if you view the source, it's XML formatted in probably one of the weirdest RSS formats I've ever seen. There was a trick I found somewhere on their page (might have to go link diving again to find it) that allows you to specify on the page what format you want the RSS feed to appear in, and then listed 5-7 of them, one being Fireburner.

I've actually begun parsing these rss feeds for my daily news podcast download and discovered that through some trial and error. ^_^
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