Okay folks, the deal is: I release my code as open source, and you point out to me when its broken, and I’ve made dumb mistakes. Thats how it works.

At some point I seem to have reverted my patches to Snoopy that allowed Magpie to fetch feeds via SSL. This was working in my local version (which I use in conjunction with FoF to read my private RSS feeds), but not in any publicly available version.

Guess I’m the only freak who wants to read RSS feeds via SSL. (Mark more or less confirmed this.)

Grab the latest version of extlib/Snoopy, if you’re so inclined. Or wait, and I’ll probably put out a new release in a few weeks. Note: Snoopy supports SSL through the expedient, if ugly, approach of exec’ing curl. This isn’t going to work on all shared hosts. Also you need to set the curl_path variable at the stop of Snoopy to point to wherever you’ve installed it. (though now you’ll get an error message if it can’t be found)