FeedTree Web Proxy

FeedTree is a peer-to-peer application that brings Web feeds to your desktop faster. FeedTree users work together to share news as soon as it is available; news arrives immediately, instead of on a polling schedule, making RSS as instantaneous as e-mail.

The FeedTree Web Proxy runs on your Mac alongside your favorite feed reading application. Your feed reader then talks to the proxy instead of the Internet, so it gets the latest news without polling the server.

FeedTree is a research project from the Rice University Department of Computer Science. For more information, see the website for the FeedTree project at feedtree.net.

What is new in this release:

• Proxy: New statistics and info in the web UI (screenshots)
• Proxy: Support for conditional HTTP fetch of feeds being polled
• Proxy: All feeds are now formatted as RSS 2.0 on the client side for better compatibility with feed reading apps (this might be switched back to Atom 1.0 as adoption and toolkit support improve)
• Proxy: More robust handling of content feed elements, so that RSS 2.0 fulltext feeds aren't truncated for proxy users

Requirements:

• Java 1.4.2 or higher
• A desktop feed reader, such as SharpReader or FeedDemon