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I have a rather unique situation, I think. I use Vienna for both internal company feeds and external public feeds.
In my situation:
Internet access goes through a proxy.
Certain web browsers are whitelisted for use to access the internet through that proxy. (Chrome, FF, Safari).

With Beta 18 and earlier, I can get RSS updates from external feeds in this network configuration. I can't use the Vienna internal browser to read any of the articles directly since it's not one of the whiltelisted browsers, but that's fine.

But with Beta 19, None of the external RSS feeds will update either.

Not sure how to find out what the error is. I just get the exclamation point next to the feeds.

Tim.

EDIT: Some info:
OSX 10.8.4

Proxy whitelist info:
Latest versions permitted:
Firefox 17.0.9 ESR
Firefox 24.0 ESR
Chrome 29
Safari 5.1.10, 6.0.5
Restricted to a subset of sites for approved business:
Internet Explorer 7,8,9,10
Java 1.7.0_40 (browser plugin)
Blocked:
All versions of Internet Explorer
Java 1.6 (browser plugin)
Older versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome

We changed the User-Agent of Vienna for fetching feeds to be more compliant from Beta 19 onwards (fun fact, Vienna actually used a few different User-Agents whether fetching feeds, fetching articles in the in-built browser or fetching feed default icons).

Given your network administrators have placed certain restrictions on your web usage, you'll likely need to contact them to (i) whitelist Vienna's User-Agent explicitly, or (ii) whitelist the URLs for the feeds you want to access.

https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss ... ants.m#L21
https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss ... t-29548011

That it worked previously is more a quirk than anything. It should not be relied upon that Vienna will happen to be similar enough to another browser.

I thought it was odd that beta 18 could fetch feeds but not browse sites. It all goes through the proxy.

The user-agent was what I suspected but wouldn't have thought it used different ones at different times. Makes sense to make Vienna more consistent.

Thanks for clarifying.

Tim.