That's a good idea Philipp. Will need to check and see how standard it is to have curl compiled in. If all else fails I'll probably fall back to just including an iframe with the latest posts, but would definitely prefer to stick with the rss contents if it's possible.

I think we'll give curl a shot for the next beta just to see how it works on a variety of servers.

Can anyone that was getting this error in b1 and b2 check to see if this is working for them in b3?

I still insist that

Is still the best way to handle this.

No curl needed. No php settings need to be modified at all. Just a simple javascript include, with ?time= added so that it doesn't get cached.

That would work, however I'm trying to only use things to accomplish this that are actually available from within .threads. That way when the questions come in on, how do you get the news to display in the control panel, I don't have to tell them it requires a hack/addmon. If all of this fails and it can't be done then I'll end up going that route.

I still have this problem in B4.

However, this time I don't get anything in the browser. It works for some time but then stops with an empty screen.

Things does however work if I remove the same line as I mentioned earlier, but now it is line 3037.

Ok, it looks like we'll probably need to go with a javascript or iframe solution. No way to get this reliably working on all systems with the current way.

Was this fixed in beta 5?
Ricks last comment does say "No", but the topic has been marked with "fixed in b5".

Directly after installing beta 5, I saw that this was working, however it took long time (at least 30 sec) before the control panel opened.

Now, or rather since yesterday, I was not able to open the control panel any more. When I tried to open it, the browser works for some time and then stops and leaves an empty white screen.
So I went into the code and removed samt line once more (in beta 5 it is line 3039), and then I was able to open the control panel.

As I can recall I see no difference between how the control panel looks now and before.
What is this "raw" line supposed to do?
Is it supposed to get the UBB Announcements or what? I still see them now, even with this line removed.

Woops, I switched the code to load them in an iframe, however I forgot to remove the code that tries to do it the old way.